Bug#533166: gdmflexiserver fails silently

[Julien Cristau]

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kthxbye

Hi Todd,

a while ago you reported the following bug against gdm:

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:15:41 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

> Attempting to run a nested desktop with:
> 
>     /usr/share/gdm/applications/gdmflexiserver-xnest.desktop
> 
> fails silently. The same is true when using the System->Log Out->Switch
> User menu option in GNOME.
> 
> I was unable to locate any error messages in any system logs, as the
> default audit level in the gdm configuration appears to be 0. However,
> some manual investigation with both Xnest and Xephyr shows that this is
> some kind of authorization error:
> 
>     $ Xnest :22 & xterm -display :22 &                                          
>     [1] 19632                                                                   
>     [2] 19633                                                                   
>     user at localhost:~$ Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!                             
>     AUDIT: Mon Jun 15 02:33:03 2009: 19632 Xnest: client 1 rejected from local  host (uid 2000)                                                                
>     No protocol specified                                                       
>     xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :22                                                                                                                     
This is probably not related because gdm uses the -auth parameter to set
an xauth cookie for the X server.

Do you still have this issue with gdmflexiserver?  If so maybe you can
change the audit level by editing gdm.conf?

Cheers,
Julien