Package: kdm Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: minor Since KDE 3.2 was first packaged, I've been seeing an annoying oddity.
Normally, if you use Alt-N (or mouse through the dropdown menu) at the KDM login screen to drop to a console, KDM starts its normal countdown clock. If you don't login after a minute or do, it restarts the greeter. The same occurs after you logout. The bug is that KDM no longer cares whether you actually login and get a shell or not. Sixty seconds after showing the console, it /will/ kick you back to the greeter, even if you were in the middle of typing a command. Hitting Alt-N again returns you to the same console, with no data lost. If you're not logged in as root, this is harmless, but freakishly annoying (dropping to the console every minute). If you're logged in as root, you can "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" as your first command and will not be interrupted anymore. I suspect it's something to do with utmp/wtmp records -- that's how any sane program would check if somebody's logged in to a given terminal or not -- but don't know enough about kdm to investigate. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-fenric5 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages kdm depends on: ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy ii kdebase-bin 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (binaries) ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-1 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpam-runtime 0.76-21 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-21 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System event recording an ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 miscellaneous X clients hi xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
