Bug#240027: kdm: KDM does not start correctly on boot

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Chris Cheney writes:

> As far as I can tell it is already using /dev/urandom among other
> things. Unless I am reading the code incorrectly or there is a bug
> somewhere it should be using /dev/urandom according the
> kdm/backend/Imakefile setting.

> Domi any ideas?


I'm not sure about the build process of kdm, but:
  domi: ~> strings /usr/bin/kdm | grep urandom
  domi: ~> strings /usr/bin/kdm | grep random
  /dev/random
  Cannot read randomDevice %"s: %s
  Cannot open randomDevice %"s: %s
  domi: ~>

As far as looking at kdm source code, apparently, after configuring, I
get:
  domi: ~/src/3_2_BRANCH/kdebase> grep DEV_RANDOM config.status
  s,@XDM_CFLAGS@,-Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L
  -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE
  -DUNIXCONN -DTCPCONN -DOSMAJORVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=6
  -DHASXDMAUTH -DFRAGILE_DEV_MEM -DDEV_RANDOM=\"/dev/random\"
  -DPOLL_DEV_RANDOM -DHAS_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_GETUSERSHELL -DUSE_SYSLOG
  -DUSE_PAM -ansi -W -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith
  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -g3 -fno-inline
  -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute,;t t

( note: '-DDEV_RANDOM=\"/dev/random\"' )

I have spent a bit of time figuring out where this is coming from, and
apparently, it is generated with the Imakefile stuff in
kdebase/kdm/backend ( the part where it has "#if RandomDefines" must
be selected somehow ).

I haven't got time to look into this further atm, but I hope this
should already help...

cheers
domi