On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:16:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:26 -0500, Donald King a écrit : > > Ever since a GNOME upgrade around late April, I haven't been able to use > > GNOME at all. By downgrading to Sarge versions of the kernel, X, and > > GNOME, I narrowed it down to GNOME, although not to any particular > > package. However, it's almost certainly gnome-session or one of its > > dependencies. Sorry I can't be more specific, but gnome-session pulls > > in a big circular mess. > > This has nothing to do with gnome-session, this is a X server bug > triggered by gnome-settings-daemon when setting the keyboard properties.
If it's an X server bug, how is it causing the crash of the splash screen, which occupies an entirely different address space? > To be able to log in, you have to run: > gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard > > > Behavior: When using GDM or startx, GNOME crashes during the startup > > screen. > [...] > > This is a really nasty bug in Xorg 6.9, which seems to be triggered by > libxklavier. It's really hurting testing users as they can't login to > gnome when they have set some keyboard settings. > > How is going the testing migration of Xorg 7.0? As it doesn't look like > it will happen soon, would it be possible to upload fixed packages for > this bug to testing-proposed-updates, if the actual patch that fixed > this bug is known? What's the actual bug? Have you got a backtrace?
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