Bug#586539: gdm problem fixed

[Michael Dorrington]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
[snip]
> The TTY manager for gdm doesn’t work on kFreeBSD, so I’m not surprised.
> 
> We tried to take kFreeBSD into account when porting the TTY manager to
> gdm3, so I’d appreciate if you could test this package instead - this is
> the default for squeeze installations now. We are not going to introduce
> many things in gdm 2.20 from now.
> 
> Cheers,

I've installed gdm3. Good news is that it is using vt7 (and higher), the
bad news is that it just displays a black screen with the X shaped X
cursor. If I try to change to a console VT then this appears to trigger
a new X session to start and this is displayed rather than the console
VT. This new X session is also black with the X shaped X cursor. This
keeps happening until eventually I can switch to a console VT.

ps:
root       849  1.3  1.6  16412 12996 ?        S    11:04   0:07
/usr/bin/Xorg :5 -br -verbose -audit 0 -auth
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-lodJF4/database -nolisten tcp vt12
root       815  1.2  1.6  16412 12996 ?        S    11:03   0:07
/usr/bin/Xorg :3 -br -verbose -audit 0 -auth
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-ZCfnFl/database -nolisten tcp vt10
root       798  0.9  1.6  16412 12996 ?        S    11:03   0:06
/usr/bin/Xorg :2 -br -verbose -audit 0 -auth
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-rnRVAb/database -nolisten tcp vt9
root       743  0.8  1.6  16412 12996 ?        S    11:00   0:06
/usr/bin/Xorg :1 -br -verbose -audit 0 -auth
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-xulnbF/database -nolisten tcp vt8
root       391  0.8  1.6  16412 12764 ?        S    11:00   0:06
/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -audit 0 -auth
/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-hSszzu/database -nolisten tcp vt7

/var/log/daemon.log:
Jun 27 11:03:04 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:
display lasted 0.315563 seconds
Jun 27 11:03:42 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:
display lasted 0.157042 seconds
Jun 27 11:04:07 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:
display lasted 0.392899 seconds
Jun 27 11:04:19 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:
display lasted 0.092757 seconds
Jun 27 11:04:24 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING: GdmDisplay:
display lasted 0.301727 seconds
Jun 27 11:04:24 debian-kfreebsd-i386 gdm3[372]: WARNING:
GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached:
check X server log for errors

Do you want me to raise a bug report for gdm3?

Regards,
Mike.

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