No login with gdm after xfree upgrade
Hi all,
after an upgrade from xfree86 4.0.1-8 to 4.0.1-9 gdm won't let me
login any more. Every single keystroke in the login screen gets the
server to restart.
In the logs (debug=on in gdm.conf) there are those messages:
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_main: Here we go...
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_local_servers_start: Starting :0
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_server_start: :0
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for :0
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up socket access
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up network access
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for :0 - 2 entries
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4329]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth :0'
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting display :0!
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_display_manage: Managing :0
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_display_manage: Forked slave: 4330
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4330]: gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process for :0
Dec 4 11:15:28 wabe gdm[4330]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
Dec 4 11:15:31 wabe modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-145
Dec 4 11:15:31 wabe modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-145
Dec 4 11:15:33 wabe gdm[4330]: gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
Dec 4 11:15:33 wabe gdm[4330]: gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 4338
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4330]: gdm_slave_child_handler: 4338 died
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_child_handler: child 4330 returned 2
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_child_handler: :0
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_server_start: :0
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_server_start: Old server found (4329). Killing.
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_server_stop: Server for :0 going down!
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for :0
Dec 4 11:15:35 wabe gdm[4328]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up socket access
Then the whole process repeats. This goes on and on, each time I type
a key on the keyboard.
With version 4.0.1-8 gdm worked as it should.
Starting X with startx works well, so it's not a problem of the
X-server (xfree86).
Hoping someone can help,
joachim
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