tag 253480 - moreinfo thanks On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:44:04PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > > Please compile and deploy this version of xdm on a system where you can > > reproduce this bug, and let me know if it resolves the problem. > > Branden, thank you very much for responding to our bug report in a > quick and professional manner! Don't say that! The next thing you know, everyone will want that sort of treatment. :) > I have tested your bug fix version of XDM. After installing the > newly-compiled XDM I cannot log in at all; perhaps a new bug was > introduced into the code? Possibly. A week ago I was not in a good position to test the code myself, but now I am, so I'll play with it a bit more locally. I've hacked on xdm before, but I seldom get things right on the first try. :-/ > Here are the steps I carried out: > > 1. Installed Debian/sarge on a test machine. > 2. Verified that the bug was reproducible with the stock XDM that came > with the system (version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4). > 3. Compiled and installed the patched version of XDM according to your > instructions[1]. > 4. Restarted xdm by running /etc/init.d/xdm/restart. > 5. Now cannot log in at all now, not even for the users who are not over > disk quota. > 6. If I switch back to the unpatched binary of xdm, log-ins start > working again (for not-over-quota accounts). I am curious to know if and how the output to the xdm logfile (/var/log/xdm.log) differed for the unpatched vs. the patched version. > Footnotes: > [1] [For the record, in addition to the steps that you provided I had to > do two additional things: (1) change all references in the Makefile to > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/3.3.4/include/ to > .../gcc-lib/i486-linux/..., Sorry about that. I should have told you to run "xmkmf" first; I forgot about that. > and (2) install the libxaw7-dev library.] Yes. Thanks for correcting my oversights. -- G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will branden@debian.org | happen. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Bob Church
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