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gdm fails to start

Bug #1057128 reported by Wajih Letaief on 2012-09-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1056936: [FFE] GDM 3.6.0 won't start without gnome-session 3.6.0. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gdm (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After an update, i put gdm as a display manager
on the next boot, i have a freezing black screen

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Wed Sep 26 20:58:57 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: vboxhost, 4.2.0, 3.5.0-15-generic, i686: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Latitude D630 [1028:01f9]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f9]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120612)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D630
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
   no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-15-generic root=UUID=7fb143a5-9e03-4546-a9e9-17732a3ee1a9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/14/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A16
dmi.board.name: 0KU184
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA16:bd07/14/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD630:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0KU184:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D630
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.2+bzr3377-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120917.7cfd42ce-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.8-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu1

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Wajih Letaief (mawale) wrote on 2012-09-26:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (66.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootLog.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (2.8 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (39.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLog.txt Edit (10.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLogOld.txt Edit (9.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (14.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (722 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (294 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (125.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (294.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (787 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.gz Edit (7.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
XorgLogOld.gz Edit (7.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (9.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2012-09-27:

nothing in the logs suggest it's a crash

affects:	xorg (Ubuntu) → gdm (Ubuntu)
summary:	- Xorg crash + gdm fails to start

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