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gdm package

GDM fails to start with kernel_vsyscall error

Bug #460670 reported by Sune Keller on 2009-10-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #477724: gdm-simple-slave crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_dispatch(). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gdm (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

Running gdm gives attached error output and leaves the following in /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log.

gdm-simple-slave[7439]: WARNING: Failed to get display id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
gdm-simple-slave[7439]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_array_free: assertion `array' failed

Using karmic with latest packages as per 2009-10-25 21:58:13.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 25 21:48:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Sune Keller (sune-keller) wrote on 2009-10-25:

Error output from gdm Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain)
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (5.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-10-28:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.