On Sun, Jul 08, 2007, Ely Levy wrote: > I made a mistake when sending the bug report and didn't provide all the > information: > > in daemon/misc.c the function gdm_peek_local_address_list calls > getaddrinfo with the uninitialized variable hints. This causes getaddrinfo > to fail, which in turn cause gdm not to write the xauthority file > correctly. Changing hints to NULL in the function call seems to solve the > problem.
Please try with version 2.18.3 in unstable; I think it fixes this area of the code. -- Loïc Minier