Description of problem: When trying to restart X at the GDM login with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE I sometime get: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.6.0.8-1 How reproducible: semi-consistent Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get to the login screen 2. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE 3. Actual results: warning message Expected results: correctly restart X all the times Additional info:
I have the same problem except it's fully consistent here. Themed greeter always crashes (on boot, logout, etc) then I get the restart popup, then the non-svg greeter is displayed gdm-2.6.0.8-15
Can you attach your /etc/X11/gdm.conf file please? Also, would you mind setting enable=true in the [debug] section of the conf file, restarting and then attaching your /var/log/messages file?
I have the same problem. I will attach a /var/log/messages file with debug enabled.
Created attachment 115652 [details] debug output Here is the /var/log/messages file with the debug infos.
Created attachment 115705 [details] cat /var/log/messages | grep gdm This attachment is smaller and only includes gdm messages. I also tried with early-login and it keeps crashing.
Created attachment 117150 [details] grep gdm /var/log/messages, gdm debug enabled I have this problem too. FC4 gdm-2.6.0.8-16 Intermittent: perhaps 5-10% of restarts overall. Since doing a yum update yesterday morning, the greeter has crashed on 2/2 restarts.
on my new box 64bit fc4 x86_64 this does not happen.. old box 32bit fc4 i386 still buggy (both have same config )
My instance of the problem has become much worse since my yum update on 25th July. The themed Fedora login screen now crashes almost every time I boot or logout. One of the following then happens: (1) I get the dialog saying "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." Followed by the grey login box. (2) The themed login screen appears on a second attempt. (3) Two failures occur and I am left with a blank screen with an X cursor. I suspect that a more fundamental problem is at work here, as I am also unable to switch from a virtual console back to X with Ctrl-Atl-F7: instead of returning me to my desktop, this kills my X session and returns me either to (2) or (3). Please advise if I should file this as a separate bug report. I get the same behaviour with various versions of xorg-x11. Just a thought - is there any code in gdm that relies on volatile casts, that may therefore fall victim to the gcc 4.0.0 optimisation bug, as in bug #161242 ?
Hi Dave, For now, let's just keep it on one bug. When I fix this bug, we'll see if the problem goes away for you, and if it doesn't we can do another bug report if necessary.
I tried building and installing my own gdm rpm from gdm-2.6.0.8-16.src.rpm using gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4, in case this was a gcc 4.0.0 optimisation issue. This did not solve the problem, however. In case it is relevant, I am currently using Xavier Bachelot's Unichrome-enabled xorg-x11 srpm, which again I built with gcc-4.0.1-4 . http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/FC4/
fc5 test3 (gdm-2.13.0.8-1) has still this problem. The greeter crashes for me after a few CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
Still occurs in fc7 test 4; after a few CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE in a row I get this popup: "The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one". Seems to be harmless (once you click OK, you get the login screen), but still...
Still occurs in Fedora 8 (gdm-2.20.2-2.fc8). Pressing ok just pops up the same dialog over and over again. To actually get around it, you have to wait for ~1mn and then click ok.
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