Bug#406457: Yet Another Me Too

[Tim Cutts]

I've also seen this, on both real systems and on VMWare virtual  
machines.  But I have a few additional observations, which might make  
it easier to pin down:

1) Interestingly, if you strace the X server when the greeter is not  
able to respond to input, you can see that the X server is definitely  
receiving input from the keyboard.  So I don't think it's the X server  
that's at fault (which makes sense given that xdm works fine too).

2) I also found that if I tried the "Configure the login manager"  
link, and type in the root password (correctly) the password doesn't  
even appear as stars, but something interesting happens:  the  
configuration dialog does not appear, but gdm kills itself with signal  
17, restarts and as with other ways of restarting gdm, everything  
works fine after that.

3) It looks to be related to the theme.  If I set the gdm style to  
Plain, it always works correctly.

Interestingly I have two Debian Etch virtual machines on my Mac.  One  
of them behaves perfectly, the other has this problem.  I will begin  
looking through the differences in the sets of packages installed to  
see if I can find something else which may be influencing this  
behaviour.

Tim


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