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[Expired for gdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  If login triggers a crash, no error message is given

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gdm

  In general, if gnome crashes and the user is kicked back to GDM, they
  receive no information about what caused the crash. Obviously such
  crashes should be fixed, but the user should also receive some sort of
  information about what went wrong. In my case, now whenever I login
  using gdm the screen goes black and GDM reloads rather than loading my
  gnome desktop. I have no way of knowing if X crashed, if GDM crashed,
  if Gnome crashed, if a startup script crashed, etc., which means I
  have no way to figure out what log files to look at or what to Google
  for. For technically unsophisticated users, it'd still be useful to
  point out to them that they can try the Gnome failsafe option, or to
  list the Canonical paid support phone #, and for advanced users it'd
  be nice to have a dialog with a 'details' button that will reveal the
  raw information about what went wrong.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jul 24 17:31:01 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: gdm

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