Comment 16 for bug 471844

I've stopped gdm as advised above, though "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" advised me to use "stop gdm" instead. I've started X using startx from the console, which seems to work fine, but doesn't go through any of the xsplash stuff and doesn't crash. Should I be attempting to get a backtrace on starting gdm, or should I be getting a backtrace on making X crash by changing my desktop background?