Re: [gdm] strange behaviour when starting GDM

["Jacob Anawalt" <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

Pim Bliek said:
>
>> I played with gdm the other day, and found that if the standard greeter
>> is used, gdm worked fine, but if I used the graphical greeter, I saw the
>> same behavoiur of gdm trying to start 3 or 4 times and then eventually
>> giving up.
>
> Thanx, that solved my issue! Pity though, I like the graphical greeter a
> lot more than the boring one ;)
>
> Anyone aware of a bug already being filed against the gdm package?
>
Short answer:
yes :P

Long answer:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=gdm&archive=no
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208457
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208536

You can follow the bug links for packages either through the package info:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages

Or through the bug system here:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

The question had been asked recently as well:
http://lists.debian.org/search.html
I had to type "gdm; greeter" and click partial match to find it, so that's
not always easy. Looking up bug reports on packages is, but only if you
know what package is the problem.

I'm glad it works for you now. I also like the graphical greeter with the
sunflower, but for now I'm waiting out the fix rather than backing off the
image library. It hasn't seemed to affect anything else I do.

-- 
Jacob
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