Bug#261786: marked as done (gdmgreeter diagnostics go nowhere)
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From: Matthew Sanderson <matthew@formtrap.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdmgreeter diagnostics go nowhere
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Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.3-1
Severity: important
GDMGreeter prints diagnostics to its stderr. However, when it is being run as a sub-process of gdm, at the time that it
prints these diagnostics, its stderr is opened to /dev/null. Therefore the diagnostics are never seen by a human; and
therefore, diagnosing problems with gdmgreeter is much harder than it need be.
Suggest either:
a. gdmgreeter should keep a pipe open to 'gdm', and should print its diagnostics to this pipe. GDM should then read
gdmgreeter's diagnostics from the other end of the pipe, and then handle them in exactly the same way as gdm handles
its own diagnostics (eg by writing them to a log file, sending them to syslog, whatever); or,
b. gdmgreeter should handle its own diagnostics, and should be capable (at least) of writing them to a log file and of
sending them to syslog; or,
c. it should be documented that the proper way of diagnosing problems with gdmgreeter is to run gdm under 'strace -f'
or gdb or something. In this case, gdmgreeter printing anything to stderr (which is /dev/null) is a waste of CPU time
by gdmgreeter.
Generally, either diagnostic messages should be made to go somewhere useful, or if it is decided that they will never
go anywhere useful then there is no point printing them, so they should be removed.
Some or all of this may apply to sub-processes of gdm other than gdmgreeter (gdmchooser?).
Cheers,
--m@
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
hi adduser 3.49 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.15 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gksu 1.2.0-2 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.4.2-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.2.2-4 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.15-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
hi libpam-modules 0.76-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-15 Runtime support for the PAM librar
hi libpam0g 0.76-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
hi libpopt0 1.7-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.7.2-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.14-2 SELinux shared libraries
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 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.4.55-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii xbase-clients 4.3.0-7 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 4.2.1-3 X terminal emulator
hi zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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Subject: Bug#261786: fixed in gdm 2.6.0.4-1
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Source: gdm
Source-Version: 2.6.0.4-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gdm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
gdm_2.6.0.4-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.4-1.diff.gz
gdm_2.6.0.4-1.dsc
to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.4-1.dsc
gdm_2.6.0.4-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.4-1_i386.deb
gdm_2.6.0.4.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.4.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 261786@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> (supplier of updated gdm package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:45:36 -0700
Source: gdm
Binary: gdm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Changed-By: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Description:
gdm - GNOME Display Manager
Closes: 248263 258213 258933 259173 261786 262625 265101 266734 267146
Changes:
gdm (2.6.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release (closes: #258213)
* When XKeepsCrashing uses whiptail, pass --scrolltext (closes: #248263)
* Fix case typo in slave.c (closes: #259173)
* Use invoke-rc.d in prerm (closes: #262625)
* Don't export LANG in /etc/default/gdm (closes: #265101)
* Move libexecdir to /usr/lib/gdm (closes: #266734)
* Keep stderr open across some execs so error messages make it to the log
(closes: #261786)
* Update de.po, es.po (closes: #258933, #267146)
Files:
073d54c302a1f94b7dae36dd035f1733 719 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.4-1.dsc
8abac4da9cdaa21ca0a0bd03a42a7e19 5310026 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.4.orig.tar.gz
bc935bf6878dcf45b8fe6c5b59086fb0 58047 gnome optional gdm_2.6.0.4-1.diff.gz
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