[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#486475: breaks xdm logins

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Tue Jun 17 05:27:58 UTC 2008


On 2008-06-16 13:01 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> If I have use-session-dbus in /etc/X11/Xsession.options, xdm fails
> to start sessions:
>
> + exec /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-window-manager
> XDM authorization key matches an existing client!Error: Couldn't connect to XServer

I saw that too, but I doubt this is a bug in dbus, it rather seems
another instance of #292388.

> If I comment use-session-dbus out, it works.

A better workaround, mentioned in #292388, is probably to use

DisplayManager*authName:        MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, that works for me.

Regards,
        Sven





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