Bug#463263: gdm: Please add timestamps to .xsession-errors

Dominique Brazziel dbrazziel at snet.net
Wed Jan 30 17:37:05 UTC 2008


Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.3-1
Severity: wishlist

     If working on debugging interactive event failures (browser plugin and streaming media happen sometimes)
it would be useful to see the timing of informational/error messages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.105           add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.18          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                     2.0.0-5         graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session            2.20.2-1        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.18.4-1        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.19-3        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.20.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                 1:2.4.39-1      Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                    2.7-6           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                1.4.14-1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.1.2-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.74-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                  1:1.0.2-2       X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1           2.5.0-2         generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.14.5-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.20.1.1-1      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.12.5-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules           0.99.7.1-5      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime           0.99.7.1-5      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.99.7.1-5      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.18.4-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2               2.18.2-1        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common          2.18.2-1        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1              2.0.15-2+b1     SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                 7.6.dbs-14      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.0.3-7       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                  1:1.0.3-2       X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6                1:1.0.2-2       X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                 1:1.0.3-2       X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                   2:1.1.3-1       X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1             1:1.0.2-1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                  2.6.30.dfsg-3.1 GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-24          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-manag 1:2.20.2-1      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20071028-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5.1          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.2-5        the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                    2.20.1-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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





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