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Bug#522602: xdm randomly crashes on logout



Hi Julien,

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Apr  5, 2009 at 07:40:46 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes, when I log out of XFCE4, xdm crashes. I have found four
>> different types of crashes in /var/log/xdm.log:
>>     A) Crash (with backtrace) because of 'corrupted double-linked list'
>>     B) Crash (with backtrace) because of 'double or free corruption (out)'
>>     C) Crash (with backtrace) because of 'double or free corruption (!prev)'
>>     D) Crash with no backtrace
> 
> Hi,
> 
> can either of you still reproduce this xdm crash?  If so, is there any
> chance you could try running xdm under valgrind to try and track it
> down?

I did this last evening, logging in and out a few times. Apparently it's not an
issue with xdm at all, but rather with libpam-mount (see attachment). Funny, it
never occurred to me.

I'll re-assign to libpam-mount.

Thanks for the hint!
Christian

Attachment: valgrind-xdm.log.gz
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