Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted to
using web-mail so can't continue the thread ...
Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user.
Here follows the output Florian asked for:
egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 189MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 202.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,E70-9) mode clock 229.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1200,E70-9) mode clock 230MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,E70-9) mode clock 297MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,E70-9) mode clock 341.35MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,E70-9) mode clock 340.48MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,E70-9) mode clock 388.04MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1856x1392,E70-9) mode clock 288MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,E70-9) mode clock 135MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,E70-9) mode clock 157.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x960,E70-9) mode clock 148.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
cat .xsession-errors
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u
/var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "student"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
The application 'x-session-manager' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
Xsession: X session started for student at Wed May 16 13:20:53 NZST 2007
lspci -i egrep 'vga|video|display|graphic'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 3230
(rev 11)
(which is why we use the vesa driver)
awk '/Section "Device"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Here is the end portion of the Xorg log file:
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)(II)
XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compatibility { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+us" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) VESA(0): VBESetVBEMode failed...Tried again without customized values.
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354]
1: [0xb7fc8420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyNtoN+0x226) [0xb7b893e6]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyRegion+0x8f) [0xb7b8827f]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbDoCopy+0x498) [0xb7b888e8]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyArea+0x78) [0xb7b88ab8]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x815672d]
7: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8108790]
8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8119eb2]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81543aa]
10: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8154793]
11: /usr/bin/X11/X(miWindowExposures+0xf6) [0x810a286]
12: /usr/bin/X11/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x77) [0x8121b17]
13: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80d1151]
14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so [0xb7c61236]
15: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80cc923]
16: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SwitchMode+0xd4) [0x80c1a04]
17: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80e4e18]
18: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80e5109]
19: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8151901]
20: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x19b) [0x8086cab]
21: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x489) [0x806e699]
22: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7dd3ea8]23:
/usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
I still can't put my finger on the problem! It _may_ happen only when using
dpkg-reconfigure to increase the screen resolution.
Thanks again
Bruce Ward
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Bruce Ward Christchurch, New Zealand
