Bug#601106: gdm3: On kfreebsd 'New Login in a Window' (gdmflexiserver --xnest) does not work.

Michael Dorrington michael.dorrington at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 13:16:15 UTC 2010


Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.5-4
Severity: normal
User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org

On launching 'New Login in a Window' a window flashes up for a instant
but then disappears. The title of the window is displayed but the
contents do not seem to be displayed.

$ gdmflexiserver --xnest
** (gdmflexiserver:4651): DEBUG: Started /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display5
$ gdmflexiserver --debug --xnest
** (gdmflexiserver:4679): DEBUG: Started /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display6
$ echo $?
1

$ ktrace -f gdmflexiserver.out -- gdmflexiserver --debug --xnest
** (gdmflexiserver:24252): DEBUG: Started /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display23
$ echo $?
1
$ kdump -f gdmflexiserver.out
[snip]
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   writev 247/0xf7
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfe128,0)
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   gettimeofday 0
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  poll(0xbfbfe0b4,0x1,0x61a8)
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   poll 1
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  read(0x6,0x80ab308,0x800)
 24252 gdmflexiserver GIO   fd 6 read 104 bytes
       0x0000 6c02 0101 2800 0000 4a03 0000 2d00 0000  |l...(...J...-...|
       0x0010 0601 7300 0600 0000 3a31 2e31 3237 0000  |..s.....:1.127..|
       0x0020 0501 7500 1800 0000 0801 6700 016f 0000  |..u.......g..o..|
       0x0030 0701 7300 0400 0000 3a31 2e30 0000 0000  |..s.....:1.0....|
       0x0040 2300 0000 2f6f 7267 2f67 6e6f 6d65 2f44  |#.../org/gnome/D|
       0x0050 6973 706c 6179 4d61 6e61 6765 722f 4469  |isplayManager/Di|
       0x0060 7370 6c61 7932 3300                      |splay23.|

 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   read 104/0x68
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  read(0x6,0x80ab308,0x800)
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   read -1 errno 35 Resource temporarily unavailable
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  getpid
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   getpid 24252/0x5ebc
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  write(0x1,0x80ac858,0x4e)
 24252 gdmflexiserver GIO   fd 1 wrote 78 bytes
       "** (gdmflexiserver:24252): DEBUG: Started /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Di\
	splay23
       "
 24252 gdmflexiserver RET   write 78/0x4e
 24252 gdmflexiserver CALL  exit(0x1)
$ ls -sh gdmflexiserver.out 
320K gdmflexiserver.out

Regards,
Mike.

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

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-session [x-sessio 2.30.2-2         The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gnome-session-bin       2.30.2-2         The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.30.2-1         The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.21-1         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.24.3-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.24.3-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc0.1                 2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0        0.24-1           Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0            0.24-1           a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-3         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.88-2           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0             2.30.0-1         The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.30.1-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1+b1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.18-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules          1.1.1-6          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime          1.1.1-6          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                1.1.1-6          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpanel-applet2-0      2.30.2-2         library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0   0.96-3           PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libpolkit-gtk-1-0       0.96-2           PolicyKit GTK+ API
ii  libpopt0                1.16-1           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-common         2.26.3-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libupower-glib1         0.9.5-3          abstraction for power management -
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-19         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.6-1        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.3-2        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxklavier16           5.0-2            X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-4     GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.30.1-3       lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  policykit-1-gnome       0.96-2           GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  twm [x-window-manager]  1:1.0.4-2        Tab window manager
ii  upower                  0.9.5-3          abstraction for power management
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emula 261-1            X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                        1.30.1-2   Assistive Technology Service Provi
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.30.1-1   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  gnome-settings-daemon         2.30.2-1   daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  x11-xkb-utils                 7.5+5      X11 XKB utilities
ii  xserver-xephyr                2:1.7.7-7  nested X server
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.5+7    the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                        2.30.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag                     1:0.16.1-2 a screen magnifier for the GNOME d
ii  gnome-orca                    2.30.2-1   Scriptable screen reader
ii  gok                           2.30.0-1   GNOME Onscreen Keyboard
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.30.3-2   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  metacity                      1:2.30.1-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3


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