Bug#480056: same symptoms here, caused by misbehaving pam plugin

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:55:14PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for maintaining GDM. I got similar symptoms, i.e. gdm crashing on
> first login attempt with signal 6 and then being slow but working. I
> tracked this down to the pam_authenticate call in daemon/verify-pam.c.
> For me, this was likely caused by libpam-thinkfinger (i.e. removing and
> reinstalling turned the crshing off and on, also, judging by the
> bug-reports, it seems to be crash-happy) after a kernel update to
> Debian's linux 2.6.29(?).
> Just a thought, apologies for the noise.

I haven't seen this problem in a while.


Kurt