Bug#369686: kdm login impossible with /bin/zsh shell
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.5.2-2+b1
Severity: important
If I create a new user having /bin/zsh as shell, or if an existing
user has /bin/zsh as shell, then login is impossible for them with
kdm: once the login prompt disappears after password has been entered
(normal), we get back into kdm again after a couple of seconds
(anormal). I don't know if it is a kdm or a bash issue. The only fix I
could find for this is to chsh to /bin/bash the users who used zsh. I
don't know whether the problem appears with other shells as well...
Actually, the log message in the /var/log/kdm.log shows something like
a bash error ("shell-init" string found in /bin/bash):
------------------------------
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: No such file or directory
------------------------------
Here are my shell versions:
ii bash 3.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii zsh 4.3.2-9 A shell with lots of
features
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.2-adeos
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration
management sy
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.2-2+b1 core binaries for the KDE
base mod
ii kdebase-data 4:3.5.2-2 shared data files for the
KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-2+b1 core libraries for all KDE
applica
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-4 GCC support library
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM
librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication
Modules l
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded
runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol
client li
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Authentication library
ii libxdmcp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Display Manager Control
Protocol
ii libxtst6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System event
recording an
ii xbase-clients 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 miscellaneous X clients
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
-- debconf information:
kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
--
David Decotigny -- http://david.decotigny.free.fr
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