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[Ross Berteig <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

I allowed the most recent high priority updates to install yesterday, on
an otherwise up to date installation of Ubuntu Karmic. I didn't take
careful notes on what packages were being updated, but I do recall
mention of both the kernel (to 2.6.31-16 generic) and gdm.

After the updater completed, it wanted a reboot. After the reboot, my
GNOME sessions no longer start.

Both the normal GNOME session and the Failsafe GNOME session cause the
screen to go black, pause a second or so, then relaunch the login
screen. The xterm session does work, and from there I can see that
gnome-settings-daemon had an assertion failure. Searching for similar
bugs has not been particularly successful, although I did find Bug
#452184 quoted a similar assertion failure from an earlier version of
the gnome-settings-daemon. I'm guessing that this assertion failure is
causing a cascade of errors that result in the whole session exiting,
which gdm handles "gracefully" be putting the login screen back up.

The frustration level is pretty high, as the machine is effectively not
useful in this condition.

>From the GRUB menu, I have tried the available kernels (2.6.31-16, -15,
and -14). Of those, I got a successful login and session once on
2.6.31-14-generic, but haven't been able to repeat this since.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 15:07:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 2400
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=f3545195-5ea4-4c11-b9a7-8f645a3a6a18 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 09/19/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0G1548
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corp.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 15
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA03:bd09/19/2003:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnDimension2400:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorp.:rn0G1548:rvrA00:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct15:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dimension 2400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-16-generic

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Login with GNOME or Failsafe GNOME session goes black then back to login screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495252
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