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regarding xdm: session will not execute correctly / login works
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Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.11-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Launching session with xdm/gdm/kdm
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Credentials given to xdm
* What was the outcome of this action?
Login works but session fails to start
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Working session
currently xdm, gdm and kdm seem to be broken due to a bug I can not locate.
The Login itself works, but the window manager won't execute and the login due
fails to start.
Running startx works and I get a working X session.
I attached my .xinitrc file.
With many greetings,
Adrian Immanuel KIEß
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 4:4.8.1-3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52
ii libc6 2.17-97
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-9
ii libselinux1 2.2.1-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.11-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxft2 2.3.1-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12
ii procps 1:3.3.4-2
ii x11-utils 7.7+1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+1
ii xbase-clients 1:7.7+4
xdm recommends no packages.
xdm suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/xdm
.xinitrc
Description: inode/symlink
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--- Begin Message ---
Control: notfound -1 1:1.1.11-1
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:28:22 +0100 Adrian Immanuel Kiess <[email protected]>
wrote:
Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.11-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Launching session with xdm/gdm/kdm
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Credentials given to xdm
* What was the outcome of this action?
Login works but session fails to start
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Working session
currently xdm, gdm and kdm seem to be broken due to a bug I can not locate.
The Login itself works, but the window manager won't execute and the login due
fails to start.
Running startx works and I get a working X session.
I attached my .xinitrc file.
I'm closing this bug, as the problem does not appear to be in xdm:
you saw the same failure with xdm, gdm and kdm, while startx worked.
Note that display managers do not read ~/.xinitrc; that file is only
used by startx/xinit. xdm (like the other display managers) runs
Debian's /etc/X11/Xsession, which starts ~/.xsession if it exists, and
otherwise x-session-manager or x-window-manager. So a setup that lives
only in ~/.xinitrc will not be used after a graphical login. If a
session started from a display manager fails, the reason is usually
written to ~/.xsession-errors.
If you can still reproduce a failure that is specific to xdm with the
current version (1:1.1.17), please reopen this bug and attach
~/.xsession-errors.
Thanks,
Boyuan
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