Brian Cameron (one of the GDM guys) says this issue is not happening for
him with stock upstream gdm!
Ubuntu's GDM is currently at version 2.30.0, but upstream's latest stable 
release is 2.30.2 [1]. It fixes a fair assortment of issues, so upgrading to it 
could magically cure this bug (among others).
[1] http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.30/

If not, the problem has to be one of the myriads of patches we have
downstream! The crash will be worked around by the latest sugar-session
in Lucid, but you can replicate it by creating a new session file at
/usr/share/xsessions/problem.desktop, with these contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Problem
GenericName=Problem
Exec=xterm
Type=Application

There is some really awesome analysis in the upstream bug report[2], so if you 
want to work on this bug, I recommend starting there :)
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615462

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gdm crashes when it encounters a .desktop session file it can't read
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542345
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