Ah, no applications opening after you login again in gdm might have an entirely different reason: there might be still processes running from your desktop session after logging out.
If you get this situation again (firefox crash, for example), can you please do: - press ctrl+alt+f1, log in, do ps ux > stale-processes.txt - press alt+f7, try to log into gdm, verify that it hangs, press ctrl+alt+backspace - press ctrl+alt+f1, do kill -9 -1 - verify that 'ps ux' only shows two processes ('bash' and 'ps -ux') - press alt+f7, log in again and check whether it works Thank you! -- All programs that I run I have a segfault (core dump) [strace attache] https://launchpad.net/bugs/62838 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs