Bug#257458: gdm exits from login screen with path errors.

Jung-hoon Han Jung-hoon Han <debfolder@hanmail.net>, 257458@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:41:09 +0900


Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.3-1
Followup-For: Bug #257458

since I upgrade in sid, gdm has reject my logins.
I am a console user. in other word, logging-in from local.
this is the very boring messages:

Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds, if you have not logged out yourself this could mean that there is some installation problem or you may be out of diskspace. Try loggin in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem.

[x] View details (~/.xsession-errors file)
<folloings are content of xsession-error file>
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: line 1: ls: command not found
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Executig default failed, Will try to run
x-terminal-emulator
/etc/gdm/Xsession: linem 217: x-terminal-emulator: command not found

so I examined my /etc/gdm/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession files, but its PATH
was not wrong. also retried remove before adding new PATHs as follow:
export PATH=/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:(blah~ blah~~~):$PATH

and installed xterm although I donnot use xterm. but the same problem
happens again. Not the XTerm problem. started as failsafe too.
But it unneeded warnings(unavailable to start xscreensaver) and No XTerm executing. just clear screen.
what's the screen like today? wow!! it's clear! :(

downloading only xserver-xfree86 & gdm, and open in mc & copy conf files
to originated path too. well~ nothing new happens.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-hsky
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.57                Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf              1.4.30              Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.23             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu                 1.2.0-2             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.6.2-3             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.6.1-4             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-6            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.6.1-2             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.16-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.6.2-5             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.6.1-1             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.6.2-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.0-1           Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.4.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.6.1-8             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.6.1.1-2           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.6.1.1-3           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.6.1.1-5           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.4.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.10.2-1.1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-22             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.4.0-4             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-4               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.7.2-3             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.14-2              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-4           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2              2.6.11-2            GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.8.1-3           A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  mlterm [x-terminal-e 2.8.0.cvs20040403-2 MultiLingual TERMinal
ii  pwm [x-window-manage 1.0.20010309-11     Lightweight window manager with fr
ii  xbase-clients        4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-6      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-5         compression library - runtime

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