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