Bug#447499: gdmXnestchooser stopped working

Christian Ohm chr.ohm at gmx.net
Sun Oct 21 16:49:40 UTC 2007


Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.0-2
Severity: important

The gdmXnestchooser command stopped working sometime in the last few
weeks. I usually use it as "gdmXnestchooser -B" to get a graphical login
into my secondary machine. But now the above command results in:

---
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG: Sending command: 'VERSION'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG:   Got response: 'GDM 2.20.0'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG xdmcp/Enable :0.0'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG:   Got response: 'OK false'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG xdmcp/HonorIndirect :0.0'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG:   Got response: 'OK true'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG: Sending command: 'GET_CONFIG daemon/Xnest :0.0'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG:   Got response: 'OK /usr/share/gdm/gdmXnestWrapper -audit 0'
** (gdmXnestchooser:23231): DEBUG: Sending command: 'CLOSE'
DISPLAY=:20

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.

---


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3-ck1-suspend2.2.10 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  blackbox [x-window-ma 0.70.1-1.1         Window manager for X
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14             Debian configuration management sy
ii  dwm [x-window-manager 4.5-2              dynamic window manager
ii  fluxbox [x-window-man 1.0.0-1            Highly configurable and low resour
ii  fvwm [x-window-manage 1:2.5.23-2         F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii  gksu                  2.0.0-4            graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session         2.20.0-2           The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-ter 2.18.2-1           The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  icewm [x-window-manag 1.2.32-2           wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii  ion3 [x-window-manage 20070927-1         keyboard-friendly window manager w
ii  jwm [x-window-manager 2.0.1-1            Very small lightweight pure X11 wi
ii  konsole [x-terminal-e 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1   X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manage 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1   the KDE window manager
ii  larswm [x-window-mana 7.5.3-5            Lars Window Manager with tiled win
ii  libart-2.0-2          2.3.19-3           Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.20.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1              1:2.4.39-1         Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                 2.6.1-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2             1.4.10-1           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.1.1-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.74-1             simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1               1:1.0.2-2          X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1        2.4.2-1.2          generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0           1:2.6.2-1          library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.14.2-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0     2.20.1-1           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.12.0-3           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules        0.99.7.1-5         Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime        0.99.7.1-5         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g              0.99.7.1-5         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.18.2-2           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2            2.18.2-1           SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common       2.18.2-1           SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1           2.0.15-2+b1        SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0              7.6.dbs-14         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6              2:1.0.3-7          X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6               1:1.0.3-2          X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcomposite1        1:0.3.2-1+b1       X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1           1:1.1.9-1          X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1           1:1.1.1-3          X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxdmcp6             1:1.0.2-2          X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6              1:1.0.3-2          X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3            1:4.0.3-2          X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                2:1.1.3-1          X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1          1:1.0.2-1          X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2               2.6.30.dfsg-2      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2            2:1.2.2-1          X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1           1:0.9.4-1          X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-ma 1:2.20.0-1         A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-man 3.4.4-2            standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  ratpoison [x-window-m 1.4.2-1            keyboard-only window manager
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emul 1:2.6.4-12         VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  tilda [x-terminal-emu 0.09.4-4           terminal emulator with first perso
ii  wmii [x-window-manage 3.6~rc2+20070518-3 lightweight tabbed and tiled X11 w
ii  xbase-clients         1:7.3+2            miscellaneous X clients - metapack
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-ter 0.2.6-4            Xfce terminal emulator
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manag 4.4.1-3            window manager of the Xfce project
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emu 229-1              X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20070604-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5.1          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  xserver-xephyr            2:1.4-3        nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.3+2        the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.20.0-2       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm






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