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gdm session may fail if loging in immediately after a boot

Bug #84718 reported by C de-Avillez
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #25931: Failed to initalize HAL.. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: initscripts

I am not sure on how to classify this one: gdm, linux-2.6.20, dbus, or initscripts. I decided for initscripts, but I may be wrong.

gdm is started earlier in the boot process, allowing for a login while a series of other init scripts may either be still running or not even started.

This is specially important since dbus and hal are started after gdm -- but a successful login under gdm requires dbus and hal to have already started (S13gdm, and S20dbus).

This is basically a race condition: if the user's craving of the gnome environment is uncontrolled, then the user will login in as soon as the gdm allows.

If dbus/hal have not yet initialised, the resulting session is unusable. The only option is to fall back into a terminal (Ctrl/Alt/F[1-6]), login and restart gdm.

If, otherwise, the user can hold on for a few seconds before logging in, no problems.

I would prioritise this one just below critical, or critical.

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Bug # 81670 is a duplicate of this but for Edgy. Marking self as duplicate.

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Rob Oxspring (roxspring) wrote :

How long should I have to wait after the login prompt before logging in? I've tried waiting 60s but still get "Failed to initialize hal" dialog. For what its worth, I find that doing "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart" gets things working again for me, although avahi-deamon appears not to be running before the dbus restart, in case thats relevant. I'm running feisty x64 which showing the problem duel booted with edgy x32 which doesn't.

Am I describing a separate problem? any logs / information I can provide that would be useful?

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Rob, I do not know -- the boot log might show something here.

But, please, let's move to bug # 81670, which is the bug tracking this issue. Please reply/append the log there.

C de-Avillez (hggdh2)
Changed in sysvinit:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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