[Bug 48936] Re: GDM: Greeter application crashing

[Jonathan Harker]

I am using Edgy on a Compaq V2402 laptop (ATi Radeon Xpress 200M with
either the Ubuntu repository fglrx driver, a hand-rolled fglrx driver
2.0.6234 / 8.32.5 and a couple of older versions, the radeon or vesa
driver).

I get the greeter "appears to be crashing" message with the functioning
fall-back greeter.

This is irrespective of whether I have cold started up, rebooted, logged
out, or restarted X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

I believe there might be cause to investigate this further, and may not
necessarily be a X or driver problem. I will attach relevant bits of
/var/log/gdm/:0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log from my laptop shortly
(later tonight or tomorrow!) but there is mention of

(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed

which sounds like ATi and their hopelessly out of date DRI, and also

(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/wacom (no such file or
directory)

Which, like Chess, is a total F mystery...?  ;-)

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GDM: Greeter application crashing
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48936