On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 15:47:40 +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > xdm reproducibly crashes when the user's home directory does not exist, > before actually doing any pam session handling - so that pam_mkhomedir can't > take care of the missing homedir. > > it's easy to reproduce: > > apt-get install xdm > (nothing special, everything out of the box) > adduser dummy > ... > rm -rf /home/dummy > cat /etc/pam.d/common-session > session optional pam_mkhomedir.so > session required pam_unix.so > > and that's it. you try to login as dummy, the password is accepted, > a brief message of "login successful" or the like flashes on the screen, > and then the greeter part of xdm sigsegvs, and the main xdm shuts > itself and the x server down. > Hi,
any chance you could reproduce this in gdb, rather than strace? Ideally with debug symbols for xdm. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
