On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:13:00PM +0100, Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote: > Dear Fellow Debian Users, > > I'm trying to decide if and how to report a possible bug in Debian. > > I'm running Wheezy (actually it calls itself wheezy/sid when I switch > to tty1 etc.) on a 64-bit Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D laptop with an > Intel Core2Duo chip. > > Debian had started X and was just about to get to the login dialog box > when I happened to plug in the laptop's power. This immediately > resulted in a graphical error screen showing a 'sad-faced PC' image > and the following message: I can't say I'm aware of this image, but the timing of it suggests to me it's a bug in ?dm (gdm3, kdm or whatever display manager you use). Probably an ACPI event happened which either GDM or X wasn't expecting. Do you, perhaps have one of these dual-mode graphics cards on that laptop? If so, the system probably switched to the high-power card at that point and either it wasn't initialised correctly or the low-power one was no longer available for X to display on.
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