On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:55:12AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 à 08:54 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit : > > Good morning guys, > > > > I just upgraded to gdm 2.30.2-1 and tried to restart with the new gdm3. > > It failed before showing anything (the mouse was visible, though), fell > > back to TTY1 and tried to start again until the number of allowed X > > failures was reached and it aborted. > > > > A downgrade of gdm3 to 2.30.0-3 fixed my problem. > > > > See attached the relevant part of syslog and a gdm3.log with roughly the > > right timestep (I hope I got a usefull one). > > Thanks for the logs. This is a crash in the accessibility infrastructure > (that’s enabled by default since 2.30.2). > > FYI, you can work around it by > setting /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to false > in /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults (but obviously we should fix this > instead).
That makes gdm3 start again, yes, but the panels won't come up, so the session is pretty unusable. > > Feel free to ping me for more information. > > To go further, installing libatspi-dbg should give a more detailed > backtrace. Ideally if you managed to run the gnome-session process that > crashes in a gdb session you could obtain an even more detailed one. Erm, I'm not very familiar with C/C++ debugging, so don't hit me -- but how exactly am I supposed to attach gdb to gnome-session if gnome restarts every one and a half seconds? > Unfortunately I can’t reproduce that bug so I can’t test myself. Well, I'm willing to help figure this out! Hauke -- .''`. Jan Hauke Rahm <j...@debian.org> www.jhr-online.de : :' : Debian Developer www.debian.org `. `'` Member of the Linux Foundation www.linux.com `- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe www.fsfe.org
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