Bug#364838: xkb-data: systematically kills GNOME session during login

[Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:40:28AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> ke, 2006-04-26 kello 06:03 +0100, Daniel Stone kirjoitti:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:34:38AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > Since tonight's dinstall run, a libxklavier10 version that explicitely
> > > depends upon xkb-data entered Testing. This combination systematically 
> > > and repeatedly kills X.  After 4 hours of debuging, what fixed it was 
> > > "dpkg -P --force-depends xkb-data" (or alternately, pinning xkb-data 
> > > to priority -1 and reverting to the previous libxklavier10 release).
> > 
> > You need to be specific.  How does it 'kill' GNOME?  Can you attach your
> > xorg.conf?  Can you also attach your Xorg.0.log from a crashing session?
> > If GNOME gives you the dialog where it asks you to attach the output
> > from two commands if reporting a bug, can you attach the output from
> > those two commands?
> 
> X dies half-way through the GNOME session launching. Config and logs
> attached. GNOME does not give me that dialog; it dies before any of the
> desktop becomes visible.

The log you give doesn't show anything meaningful, except authentication
getting screwed up.  I assume the clients all die, which makes the
server exit, too: check ~/.xsession-errors.