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Bug#617208: Fails if started by init



reassign 617208 libxt6
found 617208 1:1.1.0-1
forcemerge 617208 617223
thanks

On 2011-03-07 09:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> This morning I found myself at the console rather than at the XDM login
> prompt, with the following messages in /var/log/xdm.log:
>
> ,----
> | Mon Mar  7 07:50:32 2011 xdm error (pid 1285): Unknown session exit code 2816 from process 1463
> | Mon Mar  7 07:50:33 2011 xdm info (pid 1285): Exiting
> `----

In /var/log/messages, I can see that it actually segfaults:

,----
| Mar  7 07:50:32 turtle kernel: [   18.630173] xdm[1463]: segfault at a8 ip 00000000f763fdd5 sp 00000000ff816080 error 4 in libXt.so.6.0.0[f7627000+4e000]
`----

> - Downgrading cpp to version 4:4.4.5-2 makes no difference, and other
>   packages upgraded/installed/removed yesterday do not seem to have any
>   relationship to xdm.

It seems I did not get enough sleep last night, because I overlooked the
libxt6 upgrade.  Downgrading libxt6 to 1:1.0.9-2 fixes the problem.

Sven



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