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Message #52479
[Bug 396226] Re: GDM logs out after some minutes of typing on the keyboard
I see the exact same symptoms in Oneiric x64:
- it happens once every boot, after a few minutes;
- it happens systematically right when I press the Enter key (not the first time, don't know if it is always at the N-th time);
- tty1 gets lots of crap (not always the same characters, but always the same pattern, and it is the same pattern as in the original bug report)
I noticed that before the crash X is at "ctrl+alt+f7", and after the
crash it goes to "ctrl+alt+f8".
I don't know how to add "Oneiric" to the list of affected distributions
in the top of this page. I tried to do so by linking a branch without
success.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396226
Title:
GDM logs out after some minutes of typing on the keyboard
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “gdm” source package in Karmic:
Fix Released
Status in “util-linux” source package in Karmic:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Using Ubuntu Karmic x86_64, as of 06.07.09. Possibly relevant package:
gdm: Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu3
Problem:
After logging in via gdm (system freshly started up), after some minutes of typing (no matter in which program), I suddenly, without any warning, get kicked out of my session and back to the login screen. I suspect that this "event" is triggered by an unlucky but likely to occur key sequence. If I do not type anything the issue does not occur. There does not seem to be any single trigger key (i.e. the last key pressed before I get kicked out is not always the same one).
After re-logging back in, the issue does not occur anymore, until the next reboot.
Likely related symptoms:
- The first gdm session appears to start on tty1, the ones after the crash on tty7
- After the crash, if I switch to tty1, many random characters are printed, i.e.
$HOSTNAME login: *88;888;8;8<88A8
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) $HOSTNAME tty1
$HOSTNAME login: *1
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) $HOSTNAME tty1
[...]
$HOSTNAME login: 5.........215,1$9 1& 9 9!&SSSSS09!&,1/GHG.//79.1 4 *1"*2.99*1&,99*2*9*29*!9*24''''''*KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.03KM/**********************
Pa
ssword:
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) $HOSTNAME tty1
$HOSTNAME login:
Ubuntu karmic (development branch) $HOSTNAME tty1
- GDM seemes to crash (it actually looks more like a controlled logout) when tty1 displays "password:"
- The above random characters have little to do with the ones I pressed.
- No related errors are to be found in any system log (which is why I suspect it is a controlled logout rather than a crash)
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