Bug#563624: GDM's default timeout is to fast for nvidia's GLX module to be loaded

[woolsherpahat]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: Minor

GDM's GdmXserverTimeout is set to 10 seconds by default in
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf. This leads to the following behavior on
my machine. If I log out of Gnome or restart GDM manually from the
command line by invoking '/etc/init.d/gdm restart' Xorg fails silently
without an subsequent error recorded in Xorg.0.log. I believe this is
caused by GDM's timeout being less than the time necessary for Xorg to
load Nvidia's GLX module/s.

Changing GdmXserverTimeout to 20 seconds appears to stop this
behavior. Is it possible to change the default timeout to something
like 25 seconds?

I'm using a Thinkpad T61 with a Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphics card,
xorg 1:7.4+4 and the 2.6.30-2-amd64 kernel. This behavior is
repeatable with both the 190.42-3 nvidia non-free drivers included in
sid and the 195.22 beta drivers available from nvidia directly.



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kce at thinkpad:~$ dpkg --status gdm
Package: gdm
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 15207
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.20.10-1
Provides: x-display-manager
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libattr1
(>= 2.4.41-1), libaudit0, libc6 (>= 2.3), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libdmx1,
libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libglade2-0 (>=
1:2.6.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1),
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpango1.0-0 (>=
1.14.0), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.26.0), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libwrap0 (>=
7.6-4~), libx11-6, libxau6, libxdmcp6, libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1,
libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser,
libpam-modules (>= 0.72-1), libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1),
gnome-session | x-session-manager | x-window-manager |
x-terminal-emulator, gksu (>= 1.0.7), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14),
librsvg2-common
Recommends: whiptail | dialog, zenity, gdm-themes, xserver-xephyr |
xnest, xserver-xorg
Suggests: locales, pm-utils, libpam-gnome-keyring
Conflicts: fast-user-switch-applet (<< 2.17.4), gnome-panel (<<
2.19.2), gnome-screensaver (<< 2.17.7), gnome-session (<< 2.19.2)
Conffiles:
 /etc/gdm/Init/Default 7ccbd175154c6ff73fbe4eff9711cc34
 /etc/gdm/gdm.conf 5a344c36d142cad2a109e1892b5354bd
 /etc/gdm/XKeepsCrashing 707f1348da2ccd30f330cb0301adac54
 /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default.sample 2c3d901312c1bc31997ba6ba53b5f18a
 /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default a1a563082a9fa5ad2510b04dcc94f355
 /etc/gdm/Xsession 25a9db180a5c9e0035a74789ef2073da
 /etc/gdm/locale.conf 3a304ecef65088df6457a8443b2acee7
 /etc/gdm/modules/AccessKeyMouseEvents 4bdb261d7e6ff1c5a9c109b4699ef5bd
 /etc/gdm/modules/factory-AccessDwellMouseEvents
b728f3702edc65820cba9a21ea238166
 /etc/gdm/modules/AccessDwellMouseEvents b728f3702edc65820cba9a21ea238166
 /etc/gdm/modules/factory-AccessKeyMouseEvents 4bdb261d7e6ff1c5a9c109b4699ef5bd
 /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default 15896cc5b1a4334b157a287a775680e7
 /etc/pam.d/gdm af1bca30e47a53b61bf478b46a36913c
 /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin b60183dee52f58dbe93973d1958817e4
 /etc/init.d/gdm d655d8b37df0ab732a5c3aaad845fd98


Thank you.