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Unable to log in "greeter application is crashing"

Bug #331264 reported by Nate Wiebe
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Bug Description

I just upgraded in Jaunty and now i have an error coming up. "The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one." I've read different forums and so far nothing has helped. Not sure if this is a problem in the gdm package or not.

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Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala) wrote :

Same error for me. After pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and logging as normal user allows graphical session with command startx.

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Michael Evans (mjevans1983) wrote :

I seem to have the same problem, except that I cannot get startx to remain logged in after starting on the console. I am using xubuntu 9.04 (just updated earlier this evening. I was typing in another window when a dialogue popped up and stole the input focus, so I only saw it flash on to the screen in a flicker and have -no- idea what it said or what got selected).

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Michael Evans (mjevans1983) wrote :

However startx did have a LOT of background corruption. I just tried reverting to nv driver instead of nvidia driver and it works. Unfortunately that reduces me to 2d mode and NO XV. No flash videos, no modern codecs of any kind...

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Nikola Yanev (gericom) wrote :

the same here, but i think it is as mark stover says here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/331292 because these lib's and not nvidias', but also realize, that putting gdm on autologin with my username it work perfect, but i know it can be security vulnerability, but we can use it some days until it be fixed ;)

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