Just restarted X server and it didn't restart, resorted to startx

Binary package hint: xrdb

I dont know I used 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart' and it never restarted. went to TTY1 and used startx. didn't try to reproduce as I am in the middle of an important project.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 8 09:59:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xrdb
Package: xrdb 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: xrdb -nocpp -merge
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 8
SourcePackage: xrdb
StacktraceTop:
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Uname: Linux slowhound 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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