I have been trying to get gdm to work again, as it broke a little while ago. I thought it was gdm, but I found an old .deb (which worked at the time for me, 1.0.0-5) but it didn't fix the problem.
(I'm using unstable, and gdm 1.0.0-9). Symptoms, gdm starts up X, and then hangs there. :0.log says that xlib is denying access, the MIT-COOKIE isn't valid. I think the message even implies that it is malformed (I'll send the log entry from home, later). Recompiling does *not* help. It seems to be a problem with the fact that (according to the change log in xlib) the new stricter MIT-COOKIE checking in xlib keeps gdm from checking in. I've tried all kinds of things, but nothing works. The most spectacular failure is when I log in as root and do an 'xauth merge /var/state/gdm/authdir/:0.auth'. That causes the X server to die and restart. Can someone point me at something to explain what is going on so I can fix this? I'm not an official developer, just someone who wants it to work! Ciao! -- "Boarding this vessel is an act of war. Ergo we surrender." --Rimmer (Red Dwarf episode: Gunmen of the Apocalypse) The Doctor What: <fill in the blank> http://docwhat.gerf.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key) KF6VNC