Bug#683338: i'm also seeing gdm3 fail to allow a login on wheezy

[Sébastien Villemot]

Control: tags -1 - patch

Le lundi 15 juillet 2013 à 14:05 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor a écrit :

> While the patch supplied by Sébastien Villemot [0] does resolve the
> situation when a user clicks "cancel" during a login, it also appears to
> break the login dialog box when someone enters the wrong password (as
> reported by Gregorio Corral [1]).  With the patch, if you fail to enter
> the correct password, the dialog box remains with no UI elements.
> 
> Sébastien, can you confirm that behavior?  have you tried failing a
> login with your patch applied?

Thanks for testing my patch. I am currently too far from a test machine
to confirm the problem that you describe, but given that 2 people are
experiencing it, my patch must be broken. We'll have to find a better
solution.

> Has this been reported upstream anywhere?

Yes, it has been reported upstream as indicated by the "forwarded
upstream" status of the present Debian bug report (it is 
#704284 in bugzilla.gnome.org). However I am not sure that upstream is
going to invest time in fixing this, since they removed the fallback
greeter in recent GDM versions.

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