gdm MIT-COOKIE problem
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!
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