Bug#487689: X apparently crashes sometimes upon login in gdm

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Severity: important
> Version: 2:2.3.1-1
>   

Please try 2.3.2 from unstable.

> Once GDM presents its login screen and I enter my username/password,
> pressing enter causes X to restart about half a second after the login
> starts. Then, the GDM login screen is presented again, and logging in
> succeeds without problems.
>   

Which window manager are you trying to start? Is there any compositing
effects in there? Compiz?

Is there a backtrace at the end of Xorg.0.log.old (the log of the
previous session, the one which crashed before GDM restarted X then) ?

> Attached is the diff between the Xorg.0.log.old and Xorg.0.log. The old
> one is from the session that seems to crash and the other one from the
> succeeded one.
>   

Please send .xsession-errors as well.

> According with the differences, I'm guessing this problem is in the
> driver. Also, this started happening *around* the time the driver was
> upgraded to 2:2.3.1-1, though I'm not completely sure about the date
> (sorry for not having paid enough attention to this at that time).
>   

Please send your config and log as well.

Brice