** Changed in: gdm
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
** Changed in: gdm
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382879
Title:
gdm should not hardcode name of ~/.xsession-errors
Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
Fix Released
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
When an error occurs during login, the gdm slave will redirect errors
to ~/.xsession-errors. The gdm daemon will then attempt to display
the contents of the file to the user. If the user's home directory is
on a networked filesystem that the daemon process does not normally
have permission to read (NFS, AFS, etc), the user will never get to
see the errors.
The user then has to find a way to login (perhaps in a tty session)
and read their .xsession-errors file simply to be able to see what
failed. This makes it extremely difficult to troubleshoot login
problems in a network filesystem environment.
Ideally, gdm should allow the administrator to define the path of the
errors file. In the traditional Xsession script (/etc/X11/Xsession),
this is accomplished by changing the value of $ERRFILE. It's
unfortunate that gdm lacks this functionality.
Relevant information:
jdreed@infinite-loop:/etc/X11$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
jdreed@infinite-loop:/etc/X11$ apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
Installed: 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2.20.10-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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