Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

[Jay Kline]

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Ryan Murray wrote:
| 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
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| 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.
|

The file is blank.  Note that the sesision type did not change, and this
behavior happens regargless of the session selected, or which user.
This is happening on close to 150 workstations here.  As near as I can
tell, the session is never starting at all (startkde for most)

Jay

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