gdm starts X server, then gdm greeter dies immediately afterwards: lather, rinse, repeat.

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #286890 http://bugs.debian.org/286890

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:45:32 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: gdm starts X server, then gdm greeter dies immediately afterwards: lather,
 rinse, repeat.

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Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Severity: grave

After updating to GNOME 1.8, gdm starting crashing horribly.....

I enabled debugging in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, and the syslog shows that
apparently the greeter is dieing immediately right after it starts,
and then cycling indefinitely, or at least until the six times in 90
seconds sanity check kicks in. (Thank goodness for this, since
otherwise I wouldn't be able to get control of my system.)

Enclosed please find the syslog information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
ii blackbox [x-window-m 0.65.0-3 Window manager for X
ii debconf 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.25 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gksu 1.2.2-1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.8.1-4 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.8.0-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.18-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-11 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.0-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-6 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 ...

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:38:39 +0200
From: "AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: gdm starts X server, then gdm greeter dies immediately afterwards: lather, rinse,
 repeat.

Hi,

>Package: gdm
>Version: 2.6.0.4-1
>Severity: grave
>
>After updating to GNOME 1.8, gdm starting crashing horribly.....
>
>I enabled debugging in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, and the syslog shows that
>apparently the greeter is dieing immediately right after it starts,
>and then cycling indefinitely, or at least until the six times in 90
>seconds sanity check kicks in. (Thank goodness for this, since
>otherwise I wouldn't be able to get control of my system.)

Few days ago new gdm version - 2.6.0.6 entered to debian unstable.
Could you reproduce your bug with this version ? If gdm 2.6.0.6 starts
correctly on your system then please add tag "sarge" to this bug.

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Good luck,
Mantas Kriau=C4=8Di=C5=ABnas <email address hidden> Jabber ID: <email address hidden>=
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Public organization "Open Source for Lithuania" - www.akl.lt

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:24:11 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: gdm starts X server, then gdm greeter diesimmediately afterwards: lather, rinse, repeat.

This problem has since disappeared when I upgraded to a newer versions
of gdm and/or some of the GNOME libraries. I'm not sure what was going
on, or what fixed it, but the problem is gone now.

      - Ted

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