On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:53:27PM +0200, root wrote: > Package: xdm > Version: 4.2.1-6 > Severity: normal > > Possibly this only happens for root; at least, I can't reproduce it from > a non-root user. > > I have an alternate root user whose home directory is pointed at by a > symlink. > > When the X session ends, xdm replaces this symlink with an empty file. > > As far as I can tell from strace, some .Xauthority code gets very > confused, using filenames like <homedir>-n instead of > <homedir>/.Xauthority-n. (This works right *starting* the session.) > > Stracing the same for a non-root user doesn't show this confusion.
Also, are you still experiencing this problem with xserver-xfree86
4.2.1-11?
If so, can you please provide the strace output and/or the debugging
output of xdm when you experience this problem? (You can run xdm in the
foregroup from a shell prompt and pass it the -debug parameter.)
[[ While the man page implies that there are multiple debugging levels,
all xdm really does is this:
void
Debug (char * fmt, ...)
{
char buf[1024];
if (debugLevel > 0) {
va_list args;
va_start(args, fmt);
vsnprintf (buf, sizeof buf, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
WRITES(STDOUT_FILENO, buf);
}
}
So just provide the -debug option with an argument greater than 0. ]]
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