Bug#606773: Acknowledgement (Gnome Log-in Screen)

[Rob Stone]

After booting up under failsafe mode this morning, I hunted thru the
logs and found the following in syslog:-

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Dec 12 21:50:51 roblaptop laptop-mode: enabled, not active
Dec 12 21:51:07 roblaptop gdm[2202]: GLib-CRITICAL:
g_key_file_get_string: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
Dec 12 21:51:07 roblaptop gdm[2202]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_free:
assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
Dec 12 21:51:07 roblaptop gdm[2776]: Gtk-WARNING: Ignoring the separator
setting 
Dec 12 21:51:16 roblaptop gnome-session[2765]: WARNING: Unable to find
provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
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And in the gdm/:0.log it said:-
FATAL Unable to load fbcon module (whatever that is).

Can't find any other "critical/fatal" style messages.


roblaptop:/home/rob/Desktop# ps -ef |grep 2202
root      2202  2188  0 21:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root      2208  2202  0 21:50 tty7     00:01:09 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0
-auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
rob       2765  2202  0 21:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-session
--failsafe
root      3623  3620  0 23:48 pts/1    00:00:00 grep 2202
roblaptop:/home/rob/Desktop# 

roblaptop:/home/rob/Desktop# ps -ef |grep 2765
rob       2765  2202  0 21:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-session
--failsafe
rob       2827  2765  0 21:51 ?        00:00:19 nautilus
root      3649  3647  0 23:50 pts/1    00:00:00 grep 2765
roblaptop:/home/rob/Desktop# 


The Glib-CRITICAL error has been posted in Ubuntu forums but NO
resolution to this problem offered, nor any advice. I did a search and
these were the only places where it had been reported. Seeing as Ubuntu
is a "copy" of Debian, it would appear somebody, somewhere has made the
same mistake.

 
Some advice would be appreciated.