The new version of glibc properly implements putenv (that is, it puts
a pointer to the envionment variable into the environment, not a copy
of it.) gdm was doing a "putenv (foo); free (foo);". This corrupted
the XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY environment variables, making it impossible
for the gdm to co
Hi,
I have a PII rawhide system.
Some days ago a strange problem appeared:
When the system starts in telinit 5 mode all users (including root)
can login from kdm, except one user. In this user's case the kdm prompt
reappers.
So, I thought lets isolate the problem. I did telinit 3. Having logge
