Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

[Ryan Murray]

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
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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.
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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)

And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)