Bug#472318: gdmgreeter pops up a "authentication failed" box before I can log in
John Hughes
john at calva.com
Sun Mar 23 12:40:53 UTC 2008
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Can't log in because gdmgreeter pops up a "authentication failed"
window *before* I type my login/password. Pressing the "OK" button
closes the window but it reappears immediately.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.106 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.22.0-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-term 2.22.0-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.41-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1 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 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 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 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-6 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.0-1 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 2.0.59-1 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 libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 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 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-4 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.22.0-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-1 Tab window manager
ii xfwm4 [x-window-manage 4.4.2-2 window manager of the Xfce project
ii xterm [x-terminal-emul 234-1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii dialog 1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii gdm-themes 0.5.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn xserver-xephyr | xnest <none> (no description available)
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.22.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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