system freezes after loading gdm/gnome

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 15:26 +0100, Jan Dvořák wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running rawhide for fun and since a few days ago a few seconds
> after starting gdm the whole system freezes. I am sorry that I can't
> really pinpoint the exact update as I suspend and this only manifested
> after a reboot.

Intel driver? I've seen those as well. Trying rolling back to the last
update that included a new "cogl" and let us know whether that fixes it.

> The problem is that I don't get any logs and running startx with
> "exec gnome-session" in .xinitrc leads to the exactly same problem.

Xorg -configure
and move the generated xorg.conf file to /etc/X11 and change the "intel"
driver to "modesetting" and it should be enough to at least get a
graphical interface.

> Interestingly, if I run just "gnome-terminal" from my .xinitrc,
> close it and then re-run with full gnome-session, I get the shell
> and everything seems to work.  Well, except it is somewhat sluggish,
> suggesting some hidden breakage.

Cheers