Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

[Ryan Murray]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
> username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
> then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:
> 
> gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.