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Re: Error when logging in with dual monitors

 

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:38, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo.moya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 23:04 +0200, Edwin Smulders wrote:
>> Hello gnome 3 enthousiasts,
>>
>> I've been having 2 issues with gnome3 and dual (multi) monitors.
>>
>> 1) In the display settings, it will only ever detect 1 display.
>>
>> 2) When I enable a custom xorg.conf (generated with nvidia-settings,
>> known to work before) dual monitors appear to work, however when I log
>> in, gnome3 crashes and I get logged out again.
>>
> what specific process crashes? When you know, you might want to run gdb
> on that application:
>
> $ gdb $program
> (gdb) r
>  and, when it crashes:
>
> (gdb) thread apply all bt
>
> cheers
>
>

How do I find out which process crashes? Is it in a log somewhere?

I doublechecked what message I get, it's a bit different than what I said:

"Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again."

Under this is a logout button.


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