Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.10-3 Severity: normal Hello,
Please find the solution to the bug contained into XDM. You recently wrote: > Package: xdm > Version: 1:1.1.10-3 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > I have upgraded the debian machine, and xdm is not working anymore. This only > for one user. > > It seems that the issue is due to auth. It works well with tty and all other > users, and also with deleting all data and so on. > So it comes really from xdm / auth. > > > Dec 31 11:08:51 debian su[13522]: Successful su for root by peter > Dec 31 11:08:51 debian su[13522]: + /dev/tty1 peter:root > Dec 31 11:08:51 debian su[13522]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for > user root by peter(uid=8003) > Dec 31 11:09:29 debian xdm[13229]: pam_unix(xdm:session): session opened for > user peter by peter(uid=0) > Dec 31 11:09:29 debian xdm[13229]: pam_ck_connector(xdm:session): nox11 mode, > ignoring PAM_TTY :0 > Dec 31 11:09:30 debian xdm[13229]: pam_unix(xdm:session): session closed for > user peter > Dec 31 11:09:37 debian login[11150]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened > for user by LOGIN(uid=0) > Dec 31 11:09:42 debian su[13764]: Successful su for root by peter > Dec 31 11:09:42 debian su[13764]: + /dev/tty2 peter:root > Dec 31 11:09:42 debian su[13764]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for > user root by peter(uid=8003) > Looks like xdm is working just fine, but your session is exiting after 1s. Check out ~/.xsession-errors maybe? Closing as not our bug. Cheers, Julien ------------------- The proposed solution is unfortunately not leading to any hints/clues of what is going on. ~/.xsession-errors contains normal lines. However, a solution is as follows to solve the bug issue of xdm. It is simply due to the fact that xdm stores into its configuration wrong inputs. I have been tried all kind of ways, and in order to make xdm work again to overcome the bug, one must follow the following steps. (1) You login as root, and you enter the following to rebuild the xdm: On machine that have no kdm (problem between xdm and kdm), you must type (killall kdm) is not necessary. (2) /etc/init.d/xdm stop; killall kdm; /etc/init.d/xdm start Stopping X display manager: xdm. kdm: no process found Starting X display manager: xdm. If you have had previously kdm, on the linux machine, you'd better kill kdm. (3) it should now work Alternatively: If for all the users that cannot login and that complain about your installation, you simply have to tell them that the xdm is reloaded/restarted and that they have to be patient. This bug issue will be fixed soon or later, and if it does not work again, they can type as user (not root): cd ; rm .Xauthority and this will solve the problem related to the xdm process. This solution worked on 3 machines where this issue has been reported since some time. Maybe an upgrade (i.e. : apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade) ? I hope that this solution will help some users using xdm to make it work and in order to solve this bug of xdm. Best regards / Happy New Year. Y. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 4:4.4.5-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1+squeeze1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii x11-common 1:7.5+8+squeeze1 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+3 X server utilities xdm recommends no packages. xdm suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
