Bug#432153: /usr/share/gdm/gdmXnestWrapper not executable, so nested login doesn't work

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Sun Jul 8 08:26:00 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 07, 2007, Ming Hua wrote:
> The menu item for nested login disappeared from my GNOME menu, and
> running "gdmflexiserver --xnest" command from
> /usr/share/applications/gdmflexiserver-xnest.desktop gives a error
> dialog window with:
> 
>     Cannot start new display
> 
>     The nested X server (Xnest) is not available, or GDM is badly
>     configured.
>     Please install the Xnest package in order to use the nested login.
> 
> Looking into the .desktop file, I found the line
> "TryExec=/usr/share/gdm/gdmXnestWrapper".  And this file is not
> executable.  I changed it to executable, and now command "gdmflexiserver
> --xnest" works.  I haven't logout and re-login to check the menu item
> yet, but I expect that to work as well.

 Thanks; this is already fixed in our SVN repository, but I didn't
 re-upload gdm yet.

-- 
Loïc Minier




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