Bug#324556: gdm: doesn't restart greeter after log-out or X restart

[Patrick Bogen]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.8-1
Severity: normal

I'm not sure if this is a problem with gdm or Xorg, but everything else works
some I'm filing against gdm. Whenever a user logs out, or X is restarted with
ctrl-alt-backspace, gdm fails to recover and launch a new greeter; upon logout,
the display is left as the root window (with a movable mouse cursor). If X is
killed via ctrl-alt-backspace, the system drops down to a virtual terminal and
X doesn't restart. Restarting gdm manually (via /etc/init.d/gdm restart)
eventually results in the X-style crosshatch root window with the mouse cursor
and nothing else.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.67           Add and remove users and groups
ii  blackbox [x-window-manage 0.70.0-5       Window manager for X
ii  debconf                   1.4.57         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                      1.13.11        package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu                      1.3.4-1        graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session             2.10.0-5       The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.10.0-2       The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.1-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                  2.4.21-1.0.1   Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.10.0-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.10.0-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.5.1-2      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.8.0-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.10.2-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.10.1-5       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.9-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.2-3     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules            0.76-23        Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime            0.76-23        Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                  0.76-23        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.8.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.9.5-4        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1               1.24-4         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0                  7.6.dbs-8      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.20-1       GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.10.3-2     A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  xbase-clients             6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulato 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20050306-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  whiptail                  0.51.6-29      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                    2.10.0-2       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm