Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm
Hello, Here is my problem. We have tens of desktop computers with Ubuntu 7.10 installed on them. Since a few weeks, when we try to connect to a server with XDMCP (after having chosen "Actions > Remote login via XDMCP..." from the gdm logging windows), the xdmcp chooser appears and after clicking on a remote host its fails coming back to the gdm logging windows. No logging window from the remote host appears. The only thing that can have change on these desktop computers is that apt-get update and apt-get upgrade are made automatically. So I've downgraded gdm from version 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 to version 2.18.1-0ubuntu1 and xdmcp works fine again. I think that the automatically upgraded version of gdm (2.20.1) is buggy. I've run gdm in debug mode and here is an extract of the daemon.log : (...) Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6712]: DEBUG: gdm_server_spawn: '/usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -terminate -query sirius. info-ua vt7' Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: gdm_server_spawn: Forked server on pid 6712 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: do_server_wait: Before mainloop waiting for server Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/GdmXserverTimeout=10 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/GdmXserverTimeout=10 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: gdm_server_start: After mainloop waiting for server Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: gdm_server_start: Completed :0! Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: Sending VT_NUM == 7 for slave 6708 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: debug/Enable=false Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Handling message: 'VT_NUM 6708 7' Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Got VT_NUM == 7 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: Sending XPID == 6712 for slave 6708 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: debug/Enable=false Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Handling message: 'XPID 6708 6712' Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Got XPID == 6712 Jan 23 15:08:36 h113-3 gdm[6708]: DEBUG: gdm_slave_run: Opening display :0 Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: debug/Enable=false Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Handling message: 'START_NEXT_LOCAL' Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: mainloop_sig_callback: Got signal 17 Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: child 6708 crashed of signal 11 *** Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children Jan 23 15:08:37 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/DynamicXServers=false Jan 23 15:08:38 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Looking up per display value for greeter/SystemMenu=true Jan 23 15:08:38 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: greeter/SystemMenu=true Jan 23 15:08:38 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: greeter/SystemMenu=true Jan 23 15:08:38 h113-3 gdm[6481]: DEBUG: Requesting group=greeter key=SystemMenu locale=(null) (...) Best regards ** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- XDMCP fails with GDM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185916 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs