Bug#243628: gdm: post-upgrade weirdness
Amelia A Lewis
Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>, 243628@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:46:46 -0400
Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: minor
Tags: sid
After upgrading gdm, I have a couple of odd symptoms.
First, when the gdm greeter displays, the system beeps. I have no clue why
it does so, and enabling debug in gdm.conf offered no additional information
that I was able to see. This is not really that much of a problem, but it's
a bit startling. It happens whenever the greeter is redisplayed. If it's
on purpose for some reason, I want to turn it off; how? When I log out (to
shut down, for instance), it beeps at me, and I am conditioned to look for
an error message, which doesn't seem to exist.
Second, and this *may* be gnome-session rather than gdm, some unknown
program with a window is apparently started when I start a session (gnome).
I think that this is the case because after about five minutes, it is
closed, with the usual "window closing" sound effect. This is not one of my
startup programs, since they're running as expected, and I don't seem to be
missing any panel applets. Watching top as a process monitor isn't terribly
useful. This is a minor annoyance, mostly because I can't log out until the
Mystery Program dies (selecting Actions|Logout, even repeatedly, does
absolutely nothing; eventually there's a window-closing sound effect and the
logout prompt dialog immediately appears).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.52 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.20 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gnome-session 2.4.2-4 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.4.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.4.3-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.0.1-13 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-10 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-3 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-10 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.4.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgsf-1 1.8.2-6 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.8.3-2 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.76-18 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-18 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-18 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-2.1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.5.0-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.8-1 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-m 1:2.6.5-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii multi-gnome-terminal 1.6.2-5 Enhanced the GNOME Terminal
ii sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20031104-4 A window manager for X11
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/greeter: standard
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm