Encountered this problem today ... Was working on a VMware Win 7 virtual machine when suddenly gdm logged me out. Was installing SQL Server 2008 R2 and lost the whole install since it killed VMware :(
Base system configs - Ubuntu 11.04 x64 Kernel - 2.6.38-10-generic CPU - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31245 @ 3.30GHz Memory - 15.7GB Virtual system configs - Windows 7 Professional with SP1 Memory - 2GB Relevant Syslog entries - Jul 27 12:55:34 swati gdm-simple-greeter[20127]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5687: widget not within a GtkWindow Jul 27 12:55:35 swati gdm-simple-greeter[20127]: WARNING: Unable to load CK history: no seat-id found Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Successfully made thread 20146 of process 20139 (n/a) owned by '106' RT at priority 5. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Successfully made thread 20147 of process 20139 (n/a) owned by '106' RT at priority 5. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Successfully made thread 20148 of process 20139 (n/a) owned by '106' RT at priority 5. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati rtkit-daemon[1551]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Jul 27 12:55:35 swati init: tty1 main process ended, respawning Jul 27 12:55:38 swati gdm-session-worker[20129]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed There is only that one gdm-session-worker error that I can see in the syslog entries. Hope that dump helps in resolving this issue. Regards, Mihir -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774978 Title: xserver crashes in RecordAReply when XRecord is enabled in syndaemon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/774978/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs