Bug#532319: gdm: leaks file descriptors

[Jiří Paleček]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-4
Severity: normal

Hello,



Regards
    Jiri Palecek

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-test-pcw (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:

ii  gksu                  2.0.0-5            graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-sess 2.22.3-2           The GNOME 2 Session Manager

ii  konsole [x-terminal-e 4:4.2.4-1          X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  ksmserver [x-session- 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6   session manager for KDE
ii  lesstif-bin [x-window 1:0.95.0-2         user binaries for LessTif

ii  libatk1.0-0           1.20.0-1           The ATK accessibility toolkit

ii  libglib2.0-0          2.20.1-2           The GLib library of C routines

ii  libselinux1           2.0.59-1           SELinux shared libraries

ii  libx11-6              2:1.0.3-7          X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6               1:1.0.3-2          X11 authorisation library

ii  libxi6                2:1.1.4-1          X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1          1:1.0.2-1          X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2               2.7.3.dfsg-1       GNOME XML library

ii  xterm [x-terminal-emu 238-2              X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-3   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:

pn  gdm-themes                <none>         (no description available)

pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.4~5        the X.Org X server


Versions of packages gdm suggests:
pn  libpam-gnome-keyring          <none>     (no description available)


-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm


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