Public bug reported: Latest update to lightdm broke boot for me as ligthdm crashes on startup.
dmesg shows: [ 38.108529] lightdm[1621]: segfault at 3f7 ip b74ada42 sp bff82ccc error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3703.0[b746b000+102000] [ 39.364988] init: lightdm main process (1621) killed by SEGV signal ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: lightdm 1.7.6-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-3.12-generic 3.10.1 Uname: Linux 3.10.0-3-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Jul 22 08:52:53 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/lightdm InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-21 (1005 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) LightdmConfig: [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: lightdm ProcEnviron: TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0xb7467a42 <g_list_last+18>: mov 0x4(%eax),%edx PC (0xb7467a42) ok source "0x4(%eax)" (0x000003f7) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%edx" ok SegvReason: reading NULL VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: lightdm StacktraceTop: g_list_last () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 g_list_append () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 ?? () __libc_start_main (main=0x804c570, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbfd75f44, init=0x8065a10, fini=0x8065a80, rtld_fini=0xb7731600 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbfd75f3c) at libc-start.c:260 ?? () Title: lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in g_list_last() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-23 (28 days ago) UserGroups: ** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: New ** Tags: apport-crash i386 saucy ** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1203660 Title: lightdm crashed with SIGSEGV in g_list_last() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1203660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs