On my first attempt to log in, GDM crashes and restarts.

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs]

Binary package hint: gdm

I'm running the Maverick Alpha and have noticed in the last few days, after powering on, the first time I click on my name in the name picker, the X session stops and restarts, and then the next time I click on my name, it proceeds as expected.

I have attached the Xorg log showing at least a partial backtrace.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gdm 2.30.5-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.26-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 29 08:39:55 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100630.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

I experience the same behaviour for the desktop version at login.

When using autologin the same also happens at first prompt of a password, eg for evolution and synaptic, where it crashes and returns back to the gdm login window. At next login everything seems to be back to normal.

Confirming.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the log indicates it's xorg crashing there

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

Some observations.

If I login using the desktop mouse both to select the user and to confirm the password X does not crash. But then using the Enter key for one of those actions immediatelly crashes X the first time and gdm is restarted now running on VT8 instead of VT7 where VT7 here unveils the tail of the bootup messages.

If I do use the mouse to login to avoid X to crash X will still crash the first time I try to confirm my password using the Enter key, e.g for Synaptic, causing gdm to be restarted on VT8 as well.

I guess it (again) might have to do with upstart and its handling of VT-terminals, especially VT7.

I have two more Maverick installations, one running on btrfs and another being UNE and those do not cause this problem. Might add that those two are clean installations using Maverick CDs while the one causing the crashes is an early upgrade from a clean Lucid LTS installation before Maverick CDs were available.

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy)]

In response to Bowmore's comment before, mine is on an EEEPC 900A running Maverick Alpha 1, upgraded with apt-get dist-update each time.

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

Jon, my suggestion is that you reinstall using the beta-version to see if the bug still exits.

I've made a number of new installationen lately and have not been able to reproduce this bug. A lot of things can happen during the development cycle and as you've done using "dist-upgrade" each time is not a good idea unless you know what you're doing. The option "dist-upgrade" is mainly meant for stable releases but may be needed (forced) for some rare cases even during the development cycle. Myself I will leave this for now and make a reinstallation later on.

In other word, I think this bug is solved by a reinstallation.

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy)]

@Bowmore: I can confirm, reinstalling did fix it. Thanks.

[Bowmore (bowmore)]

Great, then I'm marking this bug as Invalid as it's resolved :-)