Re: [gdm-list] GDM crashes ubuntu 10.04

[dbclinton <dbclin gmail com>]

Thanks,
My system crashed again just as I hit "reply" to your message. :)

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:32 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> Could you check is there any cores and useful logs under /var/log/gdm.
Here is :0-greeter.log.1 from var/log/gdm
=======================
** (gnome-settings-daemon:1021): WARNING **: GConf
key /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons set to type string but its
expected type was bool

Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session
file /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10400180e75aafd9ea127344177343700600000010150006.ms: Failed to open file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/10400180e75aafd9ea127344177343700600000010150006.ms': No such file or directory
** (process:1028): DEBUG: Greeter session pid=1028 display=:0.0
xauthority=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-FR3WS1/database

(gnome-power-manager:1027): GLib-GObject-WARNING
**: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal
`proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x94f2530'

** (gnome-power-manager:1027): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are not
working!

** (gnome-power-manager:1027): WARNING **: proxy failed

** (gnome-power-manager:1027): WARNING **: failed to get Computer root
object

** (gnome-power-manager:1027): WARNING **: proxy NULL!!
gdm-simple-greeter[1028]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk
+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message
with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400028 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message
with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400028 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
gdm-simple-greeter[1028]: WARNING: Unable to lookup user name dbclinto:
Success
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message
with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1400028 (Login Wind)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.

(gnome-power-manager:1027): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Window manager warning: CurrentTime used to choose focus window; focus
window may not be correct.
Window manager warning: Got a request to focus the no_focus_window with
a timestamp of 0.  This shouldn't happen!
======================
I'll look for more useful material...
> 
> Besides, you could enable gdm debug by adding "Enable=true" under
> [debug] section in file /etc/gdm/custom.conf. Then you should get some
> logs in messages.log.

I did manage to get the debug addition to custom.conf a few seconds
before the crash but I couldn't see anything that appeared especially
relevant in messages.log - what kind of thing should I look for?
By the way, the last crash (this afternoon) only brought down my desktop
but my thin clients were all happily chugging away for at least an hour
afterwards. That crash began as I typed in my password to get past the
screen saver (which, by the way, is set NOT to lock upon activation!).
Thanks so much!
> 
> Thanks,
> Halton.
> 
> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 13:45 -0400, dbclinton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently installed Edubuntu 10.04 (Gnome 2.30.0) and have experienced
> > half a dozen or so crashes (screen goes black, posts strange color
> > patterns and monitor loses signal - cycles this way indefinitely)
> > sometimes unassociated with any user activity at all.
> > The pre-crash logs all share references to GDM and, particularly, to a
> > file called custom.conf. Here's a typical example:
> > 
> > May  5 15:02:55 rishon gdm-simple-slave[1655]: WARNING: Unable to load
> > file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
> > 
> > In fact, there is no file custom.conf - but nor is there on a stable
> > Ubuntu 10.04 install on a different computer in the house. I borrowed
> > and renamed a gdm.conf-custom file from a working ubuntu 9.04 (Gnome
> > 2.26.1) that I have installed on a laptop, but I don't know if that will
> > do the job.
> > Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong and how I can fix this?
> > Here are some log extracts:
> > =================
> > syslog:
> > May  9 00:46:53 rishon kernel: [11647.116012]
> > [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
> > May  9 00:46:53 rishon kernel: [11647.116029] render error detected,
> > EIR: 0x00000000
> > May  9 00:46:53 rishon kernel: [11647.117079] [drm:i915_do_wait_request]
> > *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 532213 at 532208)
> > May  9 00:46:55 rishon kernel: [11649.480018] [drm:i915_gem_idle]
> > *ERROR* hardware wedged
> > May  9 00:47:06 rishon gdm-simple-slave[3627]: WARNING: Unable to load
> > file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
> > May  9 00:47:06 rishon pulseaudio[3624]: pid.c: Stale PID file,
> > overwriting.
> > May  9 00:47:07 rishon bonobo-activation-server (dbclinton-3623): could
> > not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to
> > socket /tmp/dbus-gKShAWkQGC: Connection refused
> > May  9 00:47:08 rishon pulseaudio[3624]: main.c: Unable to contact
> > D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to
> > socket /tmp/dbus-gKShAWkQGC: Connection refused
> > May  9 00:47:08 rishon acpid: client connected from 3632[0:0]
> > May  9 00:47:08 rishon acpid: 1 client rule loaded
> > May  9 00:47:08 rishon pulseaudio[3641]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
> > May  9 00:47:10 rishon kernel: [11664.158445]
> > [drm:i915_gem_entervt_ioctl] *ERROR* Reenabling wedged hardware, good
> > luck
> > May  9 00:47:10 rishon kernel: [11664.492012]
> > [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
> > May  9 00:47:10 rishon kernel: [11664.492022] render error detected,
> > EIR: 0x00000000
> > May  9 00:47:10 rishon kernel: [11664.492916] [drm:i915_do_wait_request]
> > *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 532215 at 532208)
> > May  9 00:47:12 rishon kernel: [11666.568015] [drm:i915_gem_idle]
> > *ERROR* hardware wedged
> > May  9 00:47:12 rishon gdm-simple-slave[3646]: WARNING: Unable to load
> > file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory
> > May  9 00:47:12 rishon acpid: client 3632[0:0] has disconnected
> > ====================
> > auth.log:
> > May  9 00:46:58 rishon gnome-keyring-daemon[1476]: dbus failure
> > unregistering from session: Connection is closed
> > May  9 00:46:59 rishon gnome-keyring-daemon[1476]: dbus failure
> > unregistering from session: Connection is closed
> > May  9 00:47:00 rishon polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered
> > Authentication Agent for session /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2
> > (system bus name :1.33, object
> > path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.utf8)
> > (disconnected from bus)
> > May  9 00:47:02 rishon gdm-session-worker[1370]: pam_unix(gdm:session):
> > session closed for user dbclinton
> > ====================
> > messages log:
> > May  9 00:47:06 rishon pulseaudio[3624]: pid.c: Stale PID file,
> > overwriting.
> > May  9 00:47:07 rishon bonobo-activation-server (dbclinton-3623): could
> > not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to
> > socket /tmp/dbus-gKShAWkQGC: Connection refused
> > May  9 00:47:08 rishon pulseaudio[3624]: main.c: Unable to contact
> > D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to
> > socket /tmp/dbus-gKShAWkQGC: Connection refused
> > May  9 00:52:32 rishon kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> > ===============
> > 
> > Thanks for your great work!
> > 
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