I've been experiencing hangs when starting wmii 3.9.2 upon first login (from xdm). It's not a complete hang - I can still see my wmiirc is running and messages still show up and disappear in the bar when they are supposed to, but nothing responds to user input (keyboard or mouse), so the environment is not particularly useful. After Ctrl + Alt + backspacing X and logging in again everything works just fine.
At first I thought it might have been some bizarre side effect from the customisations I've made to my wmiirc, but I still experienced it using only the stock wmiirc. I've finally spotted the pattern - the hang occurs whenever the pam_ecryptfs module automatically mounts ~/Private (using the standard ecryptfs setup that Debian squeeze ships). I eventually noticed this pattern when my ecryptfs passphrase did not match my login password, preventing pam_ecryptfs from mounting the directory automatically and wmii would not hang. After changing the passphrase to match my login password wmii began to hang again. I've now confirmed that if I log into a virtual terminal and mount the ecryptfs prior to logging into wmii that wmii will not hang, but if I have not done so it will hang 100% of the time. Does anyone have any theories as to what could be the root cause here? Does anyone else use ecryptfs with the pam automounting stuff and wmii? Cheers, -Ian
