Bug#626331: gnome-settings-daemon doesn't allow to log into IceWM, LXDE.

[Agustin Martin]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:41:42PM -0300, Sérgio Cipolla wrote:
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon
> Version: 2.30.2-3
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> Sorry if it shouldn't be tagged as critical, but maybe it should.
> Also maybe it's a bug from gdm3 or xserver-xorg-core but I'm not knowledgeable
> enough to discern.
> I had here Xfce and IceWM from the repo plus LXDE built from upstream sources,
> all working fine.
> After a recent xserver-xorg-core upgrade (plus some other things but I'm
> guessing this is the most related one)
> I could only log into Xfce. Trying to log into LXDE or IceWM would make gdm3
> automatically logout and return to the login screen.

Hi, Sérgio,

I was observing something similar in my sid box with wdm and icewm, and today 
the behavior reached my testing box. There is an important difference, I do not 
have gnome-settings-daemon installed. 

> I tried replacing gdm3 for SLiM but the same thing happened except that the
> failed login attempt would end in the console terminal instead of the login
> screen. Xfce still worked.

Exactly the same for icewm+slim.

I was doing more tests and noticed that the problem does not happen here
with plain icewm, but when I invoke icewm-session from display manager. 
When I select plain icewm, system starts (of course with no selected 
background ...).

Looking at the packages upgraded today in my testing box, I notice that
together with many other packages, there was upgrades in the X stuff,

x11-utils:i386 (7.6+1, 7.6+2)
xserver-common:i386 (1.9.5-1, 1.10.1-2)
xserver-xorg-core:i386 (1.9.5-1, 1.10.1-2)
xserver-xorg-input-evdev:i386 (2.6.0-2, 2.6.0-2+b1)
xserver-xorg-input-kbd:i386 (1.6.0-1, 1.6.0-1+b1)
xserver-xorg-input-mouse:i386 (1.7.0-2, 1.7.0-2+b1)
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:i386 (1.4.0-1, 1.4.0-1+b1)
xserver-xorg-input-wacom:i386 (0.10.10+20110203-1, 0.10.10+20110203-1+b1)
xserver-xorg-video-ati:i386 (6.14.1-1, 6.14.1-1+b1)
xserver-xorg-video-mach64:i386 (6.8.2-5, 6.9.0-1)
xserver-xorg-video-r128:i386 (6.8.1-5, 6.8.1-5+b1)
xserver-xorg-video-radeon:i386 (6.14.1-1, 6.14.1-1+b1)

in the glibc packages,

libc-bin:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)
libc-dev-bin:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)
libc6-amd64:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)
libc6-dev:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)
libc6-i686:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)
libc6:i386 (2.11.2-11, 2.13-4)

as well as in the perl stuff.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin