Bug#365598: gdm: after upgrade, GTK+ refuses to initialize

Andreas Kroschel kro at pobox.com
Mon May 1 11:32:36 UTC 2006


Package: gdm
Version: 2.14.4-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

After upgrade to 2.14.4-1, GTK+ refuses to initialize. As a result,
xfce4 and Gnome session do not start, and if I use a non-GTK+ dependent
windowmanager like Windowmaker, a lot of programs refuse to execute,
e.g. Firefox or Openoffice.

This is the excerpt from ~/.xsession-errors which I think that it is
relevant when I try to start xfce4 or Gnome:

,----
| (process:24391): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
| This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
| program instead. For further details, see:
| 
|     http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
| 
| Refusing to initialize GTK+.
`----

With Windowmaker, I get the following errors when starting GTK+ programs:

,----
| (process:24921): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
| This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
| program instead. For further details, see:
| 
|     http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
| 
| Refusing to initialize GTK+.
| 
| (gnome-settings-daemon:24946): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
| This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
| program instead. For further details, see:
| 
|     http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
| 
| Refusing to initialize GTK+.
`----

Here we have at least the name of the process that causes the error, but
the error message is wrong:
/usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon is neither set setuid nor
setgid.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.87          Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.0         Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                       1.3.7-1       graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session              2.14.0-2      The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.14.1-1      The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulat 4:3.5.2-2     X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manager]    4:3.5.2-2     the KDE window manager
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.11.4-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                   2.4.32-1      Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.0.4-2       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdmx1                    1:1.0.1-3     X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1             2.3.2-5.1     generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.5.1-2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.10.2-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.17-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules             0.79-3.1      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime             0.79-3.1      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                   0.79-3.1      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.12.1-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.7-5         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.14.3-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common            2.14.3-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1                1.30-1        SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.dbs-9     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.0-6     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.0-3     X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.5.2-5     X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6                  1:1.0.0-4     X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.0-4     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:3.0.1.2-4   X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.0-5     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.0.2-4   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-5         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.14.1-1    A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  rxvt-unicode-ml [x-termina 7.7-4         multi-lingual terminal emulator wi
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager]  0.92.0-5.3    NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xbase-clients              1:7.0.0-5     miscellaneous X clients
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal 0.2.4-7       Xfce terminal emulator
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]   4.2.3.2-3     window manager of the Xfce project
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator 210-3         X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-11    compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5            Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-4       Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                    2.14.1-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm

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