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  1. Bug #1861609
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1861609

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Steve Flynn (anothermindbomb) wrote : Re: [focal] Xorg crashed with assertion failure (usually in a VM) at [privates.h:121: dixGetPrivateAddr: Assertion `key->initialized' failed] and call stack comes from DRIMoveBuffersHelper

journalctl attached.

I had a few attempts at logging in at 11:37 or so, which gave me no clue as to what was going on, so I moved to a TTY and poked around for a bit. Googling took me to https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/20-04-workaround-for-xorg-crashes-to-login-prompt-in-virtual-machines/21368.

As you can see, I removed gstreamer1.0-vaapi at 11:55

May 27 11:55:12 lurcher sudo[9109]: steve : TTY=tty2 ; PWD=/home/steve/.local/share/xorg ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get purge gstreamer1.0-vaapi

That seemed to do the trick - I was able to login after a reboot.

(I then made the fatal error of turning on autologin for my account and found I was back at the same issue of not being able to get past the login screen the following morning but I believe that's a different bug).

Hopefully this is of some use.

S.