Feisty in stalled, xsession keeps restarting

[Ed Smits]

OK, how dumb can one man be....

I tried everything I could think of, uninstalling and reinstalling
drivers etc, same result, an error loop always forcing me to restart
GNOME. Then I finally got smart and tried to think what I was doing
yesterday just before shutting down - AHA!, I was playing with the
gTweakUI stuff, and had set the sessions to be saved automatically.
For some stupid reason I must have had a single hiccup at some point
afterwards forcing an X restart, it thought that was normal and was
forcing me to do it every time. I unchecked the option in
gTweakUI-Sessions, restarted, no more errors for now.

ED

On 4/22/07, Ed Smits <ed.smits at gmail.com> wrote:
> Weird. I've been running Feisty for quite a while now as beta, no
> significant problems. Yesterday I did a clean install of the final
> release, everything looked good, VMWare worked, I was happy. Did some
> other minor installs before leaving, shut down. This morning the first
> thing I see after looging in to GNOME is a window telling me that my
> last xsession lasted less than 10 seconds, shows me the error log, and
> when I click OK it restarts X, and I go through the same thing again.
> However, if I ignore the window everything seems to be working -
> networking, external hard drives etc.
>
> Did a google for this and found 1 identical hit in ubuntuforums
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2rdz3d
>
> the only difference being that I am running the restricted ATI
> drivers, he was running nVidia ones, however I will try the video
> driver route anyway. I'm not using Beryl or Compiz etc.
>
> This is an edited output of my xsession-error log, I've taken out the
> memory mapping for now as I assume it isn't relevant:
>
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w
> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
> ":0" "smitse"
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/ca-esmits:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6417
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/gnome-session: malloc(): memory
> corruption: 0x081e6d58 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb75a8ef3]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x7e)[0xb75aa60e]
> /usr/lib/libSM.so.6(_SmsProcessMessage+0xd1c)[0xb7e3b5fc]
> /usr/lib/libICE.so.6(IceProcessMessages+0x311)[0xb7e2fef1]
> /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0[0xb7e82605]
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb76e240d]
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x182)[0xb76b8df2]
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb76bbdcf]
> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1a9)[0xb76bc179]
> /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0xb7bf0044]
> /usr/bin/gnome-session(main+0x5de)[0x805638e]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb7556ebc]
> /usr/bin/gnome-session[0x8051d51]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> <SNIP>
> Initializing gnome-mount extension
>
> (gnome-power-manager:6489): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to
> session manager:
> IO error occured opening connection.
>
> (update-notifier:6490): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> IO error occured opening connection.
>
> (evolution-alarm-notify:6500): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to
> session manager:
> IO error occured opening connection.
>
>
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Ed
>