[Bug 90340] gdm/gnome freezes/locks up after logout

[Fabian Zeindl]

Public bug reported:

Hi,

 every now and then GDM/Gnome/X freezes when I logout. Then the background I had in GNOME and the mousecursor are still displayed, but nothing else. I can move the mouse around, but I _cannot_ do CTRL+Alt+Backspace.
Funnily I can log in remotely by using gdm-chooser and get the gdm I run on this machine and everything works perfectly.
When I try to restart gdm (e.g. using a remote shell) or killall X, the machine locks up and has to be resettet manually...

greetings
fabian

My gdm.conf for always showing the chooser:

[servers]
0=Chooser

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0
flexible=true

[server-Terminal]
name=Terminal server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0 -terminate
flexible=false
handled=false

[server-Chooser]
name=Chooser server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0
flexible=false
chooser=true

** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gdm/gnome freezes/locks up after logout
https://beta.launchpad.net/bugs/90340