Xorg crashing after GDM login

Helmut Zimmer helmut.zimmer at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 11:07:57 PST 2006


It seems that the crashing related to my i915 chipset and especially
915resolution. I played around with 915resolution a bit and now it isn't
crashing anymore.
The crashing only happened with GDM and for example with 'startx' X started
normally.
Anyway, It's sorted now.

On 10/29/06, Andrew Shewmaker <agshew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/28/06, Helmut Zimmer <helmut.zimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My X server is crashing after I login from GDM login screen. Sometimes I
> get
> > the message about session lasting less than 10 seconds and note about
> > ~/.xsession-errors file but sometimes the whole server crashes and
> restarts
> > itself (without having time to display any error messages).
> >
> > .xsession-errors does not contain anything at all. Xorg.log also look
> normal
> > and I suppose it also should look normal since I can start to GDM
> normally.
> > I tried to create a new user if something should have been wrong with
> the
> > users settings but same thing happens. I don't recall if I had updated
> > anything before this behaviour started.
> > I'm running Debian Etch.
> >
> > Any ideas how this might be fixed? Or where I should look for some error
> > messages?
>
> Have you tried starting X without GDM and without a window manager?
>
> You might also turn debugging on for GDM in gdm.conf.
>
> --
> Andrew Shewmaker
>
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