Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

[Jay Kline]

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Ryan Murray wrote:
| On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:02:19AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
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|>Ryan Murray wrote:
|>| On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
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|>|>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:
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|>|>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.
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|>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)
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| And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)
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It seems truncated, but here it is:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 20050223080930
joshk@tripleh
elix.org)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 23 February 2005

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Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.29-1-686 (root@moscc.ahpcrc.org) (gcc
version 3.3.4
~ (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) #1 Tue Mar 1 10:12:28 CST 2005 TF
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
~         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
~         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu May 12 10:59:33 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"




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