Bug#496707: gdm fails to start gdmgreeter

[folkert]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-1
Severity: normal


GDM fails to start gdmgreeter.
Keyboard and mouse work fine.
No errors in Xorg.0.log or /var/log/gdm/:0.log

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser             3.110                add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.22               Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                2.0.0-5              graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-se 2.22.3-1             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.3-2             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.20-2             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.22.0-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1            1:2.4.43-1           Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6               2.7-13               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.6.4-6              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.1-3              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.76-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1             1:1.0.2-3            X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1      2.6.0-1              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.3.7-2              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.4-2             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.20.1.1-1           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.12.11-3            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules      1.0.1-3              Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime      1.0.1-3              Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g            1.0.1-3              Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.20.5-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2          2.22.2-2             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common     2.22.2-2             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1         2.0.65-2             SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0            7.6.q-15             Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.4-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6             1:1.0.3-3            X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6           1:1.0.2-3            X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6            2:1.0.4-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6              2:1.1.3-1            X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1        2:1.0.3-2            X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base            3.2-19               Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window- 1:2.22.0-1           A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manag 1:1.0.4-2            Tab window manager
ii  xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1                X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.6            Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.3    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.3+15       the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.22.1-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.22.3-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  locales                       2.7-13     GNU C Library: National Language (
pn  uswsusp                       <none>     (no description available)

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