Xorg crashing after GDM login

[Andrew Shewmaker]

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.

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Andrew Shewmaker