Package: gdm Version: 2.20.11-4 Severity: important When for some reason the X server fails to start[*], gdm displays an error box about the problem and (while I didn't do anything) the console login prompt appear.
I couldn't login because letter keys were apparently grabbed by gdm, while the Enter key was grabbed by the console. I tried to change the virtual console from vt6, but this had no effect (perhaps because of keys grabbed by gdm). Fortunately, I had sshd running and I could connect via SSH. Also, some time later I could get rid of gdm by trying again to type some keys (perhaps key grabbing is random, so that the Enter key makes the dialog box disappear when grabbed by gdm). [*] I'm testing the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, and X isn't configured yet for it because I was using the nvidia driver with 2.6.31. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ii fvwm [x-window-manager] 1:2.5.30.ds-1 F(?) Virtual Window Manager ii gksu 2.0.2-5 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session [x-session-m 2.30.2-3 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b2 Dynamic library for security audit ii libc6 2.11.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdmx1 1:1.1.1-1 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.0-1 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.3-6 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager ii mlterm [x-terminal-emulato 3.0.1-3 MultiLingual TERMinal ii rxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 1:2.6.4-14 VT102 terminal emulator for the X ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator 266-1 X terminal emulator Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii dialog 1.1-20100428-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gdm-themes 0.6.2 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.52.11-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe pn xserver-xephyr | xnest <none> (no description available) ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+8 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm suggests: ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.3-5 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii locales 2.11.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii pm-utils 1.3.0-3 utilities and scripts for power ma -- Configuration Files: /etc/gdm/Init/Default changed: PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH OLD_IFS=$IFS gdmwhich () { COMMAND="$1" OUTPUT= IFS=: for dir in $PATH do if test -x "$dir/$COMMAND" ; then if test "x$OUTPUT" = "x" ; then OUTPUT="$dir/$COMMAND" fi fi done IFS=$OLD_IFS echo "$OUTPUT" } sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources if [ -f "$sysresources" ]; then xrdb -merge "$sysresources" fi sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap XMODMAP=`gdmwhich xmodmap` if [ "x$XMODMAP" != "x" ] ; then if [ "x$GDM_PARENT_DISPLAY" = "x" ]; then if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then $XMODMAP $sysmodmap fi else ( DISPLAY=$GDM_PARENT_DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$GDM_PARENT_XAUTHORITY $XMODMAP -pke ) | $XMODMAP - fi # # Switch Sun's Alt and Meta mod mappings # UNAME=`gdmwhich uname` PROCESSOR=`$UNAME -p` if [ "x$PROCESSOR" = "xsparc" ]; then if $XMODMAP | /usr/bin/grep mod4 | /usr/bin/grep Alt > /dev/null 2>/dev/null then $XMODMAP -e "clear Mod1" \ -e "clear Mod4" \ -e "add Mod1 = Alt_L" \ -e "add Mod1 = Alt_R" \ -e "add Mod4 = Meta_L" \ -e "add Mod4 = Meta_R" fi fi fi SETXKBMAP=`gdmwhich setxkbmap` if [ "x$SETXKBMAP" != "x" ] ; then # FIXME: is this all right? Is this completely on crack? # What this does is move the xkb configuration from the GDM_PARENT_DISPLAY # FIXME: This should be done in code. Or there must be an easier way ... if [ -n "$GDM_PARENT_DISPLAY" ]; then XKBSETUP=`( DISPLAY=$GDM_PARENT_DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$GDM_PARENT_XAUTHORITY $SETXKBMAP -v )` if [ -n "$XKBSETUP" ]; then XKBKEYMAP=`echo "$XKBSETUP" | grep '^keymap' | awk '{ print $2 }'` XKBTYPES=`echo "$XKBSETUP" | grep '^types' | awk '{ print $2 }'` XKBCOMPAT=`echo "$XKBSETUP" | grep '^compat' | awk '{ print $2 }'` XKBSYMBOLS=`echo "$XKBSETUP" | grep '^symbols' | awk '{ print $2 }'` XKBGEOMETRY=`echo "$XKBSETUP" | grep '^geometry' | awk '{ print $2 }'` if [ -n "$XKBKEYMAP" ]; then $SETXKBMAP -keymap "$XKBKEYMAP" elif [ -n "$XKBTYPES" -a -n "$XKBCOMPAT" -a -n "$XKBSYMBOLS" -a -n "$XKBGEOMETRY" ]; then $SETXKBMAP -types "$XKBTYPES" -compat "$XKBCOMPAT" -symbols "$XKBSYMBOLS" -geometry "$XKBGEOMETRY" elif [ -n "$XKBTYPES" -a -n "$XKBCOMPAT" -a -n "$XKBSYMBOLS" ]; then $SETXKBMAP -types "$XKBTYPES" -compat "$XKBCOMPAT" -symbols "$XKBSYMBOLS" elif [ -n "$XKBSYMBOLS" ]; then $SETXKBMAP -symbols "$XKBSYMBOLS" fi fi fi fi xset -b exit 0 /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default changed: PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin" OLD_IFS=$IFS gdmwhich () { COMMAND="$1" OUTPUT= IFS=: for dir in $PATH do if test -x "$dir/$COMMAND" ; then if test "x$OUTPUT" = "x" ; then OUTPUT="$dir/$COMMAND" fi fi done IFS=$OLD_IFS echo "$OUTPUT" } if [ -x /etc/X11/Xreset ] ; then /etc/X11/Xreset fi xset -b exit 0 /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default changed: PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin" OLD_IFS=$IFS gdmwhich () { COMMAND="$1" OUTPUT= IFS=: for dir in $PATH do if test -x "$dir/$COMMAND" ; then if test "x$OUTPUT" = "x" ; then OUTPUT="$dir/$COMMAND" fi fi done IFS=$OLD_IFS echo "$OUTPUT" } XSETROOT=`gdmwhich xsetroot` if [ "x$XSETROOT" != "x" ] ; then CHECKBACKCOLOR="OK" if [ "x$GDM_GREETER_TYPE" = "xTHEMED" ]; then BACKCOLOR=`gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG greeter/GraphicalThemedColor $DISPLAY"` CHECKBACKCOLOR=`echo $BACKCOLOR | sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/'` if [ "x$CHECKBACKCOLOR" = "xOK" ]; then BACKCOLOR=`echo $BACKCOLOR | sed 's/^.* \(.*\)$/\1/'` else BACKCOLOR="" fi fi # If we tried to load the themed backgroundcolor, but failed, then try loading plain color if [ "x$CHECKBACKCOLOR" != "xOK" ] || [ "x$GDM_GREETER_TYPE" = "xPLAIN" ]; then # Background type can be 0=None, 1=Image & Color, 2=Color, or 3=Image BACKTYPE=`gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG greeter/BackgroundType $DISPLAY"` # Skip if background type does not include a color if [ "x$BACKTYPE" = "xOK 1" ] || [ "x$BACKTYPE" = "xOK 2" ]; then BACKCOLOR=`gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG greeter/BackgroundColor $DISPLAY"` CHECKBACKCOLOR=`echo $BACKCOLOR | sed 's/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/'` if [ "x$CHECKBACKCOLOR" = "xOK" ]; then BACKCOLOR=`echo $BACKCOLOR | sed 's/^.* \(.*\)$/\1/'` else BACKCOLOR="" fi fi fi # Default value if [ "x$BACKCOLOR" = "x" ]; then BACKCOLOR="#76848F" fi "$XSETROOT" -cursor_name left_ptr -solid "$BACKCOLOR" fi xset -b exit 0 /etc/gdm/gdm.conf changed: [daemon] [security] [xdmcp] [gui] [greeter] SoundOnLogin=false [chooser] [debug] [servers] -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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