Bug#285098: Can't input anything to gdm

[Patrizio Bruno]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.4-1
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable


I've seen that someone else have the same problem and I wanna
add some more information to diagnose it:

- gdm doesn't accept input just if used on a kernel with the
framebuffer enabled, and changing the input method doesn't help

- gdm uses the virtual terminal 2 instead of 7 even if in gdm.conf
FirstVT is set to 7

- if I switch to vt1 with CTRL+ALT+1 when X is running and before
gdm starts and then I switch to vt7 with ALT+7 everything works fine:
it seems that the current vt is 2 but gdm expects an input on vt7

- if I kill everything on the current vt using ALT+SYSRQ+K (Sak)
all the processes attached to the vt2 will be killed, but not gdm
that should be connected to the vt7, however I can finally input
something, but not in gdm.
Gdm shows it's input dialogs (and just them) on every virtual terminal.

I thought this problem was related to the interaction between X and
the kernel framebuffer, but the problem disappeared using kdm, so now
I think it's a gdm's bug.


PS
sorry for my bad english, if something is unclear please let me know


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
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  debconf                   1.4.41         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.10.25        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  enlightenment [x-window-m 1:0.16.6-3     The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  eterm [x-terminal-emulato 0.9.2-8        Enlightened Terminal Emulator
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-termina 2.8.0-2        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emula 4:3.3.1-2      KDE X terminal emulator
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.8.0-3        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              2.8.0-3        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  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]    0.2.35-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.8.1-4        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11               1.2.0-10       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               1.0.16-13      GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             1.0-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1                  1.11.1-1       Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules            0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-22        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.6.0-3        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.8.1-1        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1               1.18-3         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.10-4       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.dbs-6      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.8.6-1      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  xbase-clients             4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-4      compression library - runtime

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