X or gdm problem on Wheezy/testing
I wonder if somebody could give me some advice on how best to report
this bug. I'm certain that fixing it is way beyond my ability, and at
present I'm not even confident in my ability to describe it succinctly.
I've got a newly-built SPARC Wheezy/testing system replacing one of my
low-priority development systems, it's actually an Ultra-2 which until
recently was running Solaris. I've used the Wheezy+KDE CD, and have
added GDM because of its reliable XDMCP handling. Let's call this system A.
I can log into A reliably from its own console, and I can log into it
using Xnest running on itself with either the -query or -indirect
option. I can also get a graphical session using VNC. In combination, I
think these demonstrate that XDMCP is working and handing control to
GDM, and that GDM is correctly handing control to KDE or XFCE.
Under any other conditions, attempting to establish a (graphical) login
from another machine- let's call this B- crashes the X server running on
B. I've tried this from a "Switch user" session on SPARC Etch KDE, from
the initial login on an x86 Squeeze laptop, from Xnest running on the
same system, and from XMing on Windows.
This is a hard fault, entirely reproducible. I think the next thing I
need to try is reverting to kdm- presumably this is some variant of
dpkg-reconfigure (i.e. what comes after that)?
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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