Bug#428050: unfinite loop inside xdm

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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On Fri, Jun  8, 2007 at 14:43:03 +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> After a few days of normal work xdm hangs and doesn't respond to the remote
> xdmcp queries anymore. It wastes CPU and does nothing.
> I strace it, look below.
> 
> cheusov@syn-proc:~$ sudo strace -p 4319 2>&1 | head
> Process 4319 attached - interrupt to quit
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> read(5, "", 4096)                       = 0
> cheusov@syn-proc:~$
> 
> I used 'head' here because the list of read calls is unfinite.
> 
Hi Aleksey,

sorry for the late reply.  Do you still experience this problem with
xdm?  If this is the case, could you attach gdb to the xdm process and
get a backtrace, so we know where it's stuck?

Thanks,
Julien