GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 526055
Segfault in GDM on shutdown
Last modified: 2008-04-29 00:26:28 UTC
Please describe the problem: On a Debian "testing" distro using GNOME 2.22 on PIII machine with few extra features installed, ie. simple gnome environment: On shutdown, when the graphics disappears, and the shutdown text starts appearing, the is a line: gdm[2943]:segfault at 10e6e560 eip b77c8465 esp bf868580 error 4 where the numbers are slightly different each time, although it always says error 4. Steps to reproduce: 1. Turn on computer and logon. 2. Click system->shutdown and shutdown. 3. Watch terminal text for gdm:segfault line Actual results: as described Expected results: I would hope that GDM doesn't segfault Does this happen every time? yes Other information: It doesn't seem to affect usability, since I only notice it during shutdown. Its a bit worrying though. I upgraded to Debian "testing" from Debian "etch" so that I could use GNOME 2.22 a few days ago, which was when the problem started.
I suspect this is the same bug as #517526, though you don't provide a stack trace of where it is segfaulting. If you find this is a different segfault issue, please reopen with more information. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 517526 ***