# proposed patch worked for the submitter tags 308825 + patch # upstream has closed the bug with 2.14 series tags 308825 + moreinfo stop
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > i've run into this problem (or something very similar) with the > version of gdm in ubuntu 5.10 (gdm 2.8.0.5-0ubuntu1). my > /etc/nsswitch.conf uses "ldap compat", and i've removed nscd entirely. > i'm not using LDAP for PAM at all (preferring krb5 authentication). > > Thanks to the suggestions by Rob Caelers in this bug, i looked into > problems with gdm_close_all_descriptors(), and reported my findings > upstream to what looks like the relevant gdm GNOME bug [0]. With > Brian Cameron's help, i found and removed a single offending call to > gdm_close_all_descriptors() in daemon/display.c, and now gdm > successfully works for logging in. > > the patch i used against the ubuntu version was this: > > diff -Nur gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c > - --- gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c 2005-07-19 03:53:42.000000000 -0400 > +++ gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c 2006-03-16 13:53:58.000000000 -0500 > @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ > closelog (); > > /* Close everything */ > - - gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, > slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */); > + if (0) gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, > slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */); > > /* No error checking here - if it's messed the best response > * is to ignore & try to continue */ > > > i hope this helps other people to resolve this bug. let me know if i > can be of further assistance with it. > > --dkg > > [0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315846 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> > > iD8DBQFEGc4iiXTlFKVLY2URAgUjAJ4iOxQY7C7WUroPvPd8y6DHj2jWZwCePNIV > 0H+ufwLiRMX50cK3Q3524XM= > =ptz6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
