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Bug 118100
| Summary: | gdmgreeter keeps crashing endlessly | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | mark <markf78> | ||||||
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | markf78 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2004-04-17 11:05:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 114961 | ||||||||
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if i ctrl-alt-1 while the above description is occuring, then i see the following error message: gdm(pam_unix) [1190] : bad username [] Created attachment 98649 [details]
Debug log for gdm
Extract of log showing debug messages from gdm.
I'm seeing the same problem - I upgraded from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 1 with no problems. Then I applied the latest updates using yum, and now my desktop is screwed. Gnome sits with a blue background and spinning hourglass as described. KDE just keeps restarting the X server so I can't even use ctl-alt-F1. I don't see the high CPU use, but gdmgreeter does keep restarting. I enabled debugging on gdm, and have attached the relevant bits from my log file. Howvever, all this tells me is that gdm_slave_child_handler is dying unexpectedly. I tried to strace another instance of gdmgreeter while the X server was up - it traced for a while but then bombed with the following error: strace: ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, ...): Operation not permitted Any hints as to where to go next would be appreciated! Using gdm-2.4.4.5-1.2 and a source built kernel from source rpm kernel-source-2.4.20-8 Created attachment 98700 [details]
strace of gdm
the problem persists with kernel 2.6.4-1.275 gdm-2.5.90.2-3 gtk2-2.4.0-1 xorg-x11-0.0.6.6-0.0.2004_03_11.6 i've enclosed a copy of my strace as an attachment after installing FC2 test2, i can no longer produce this bug... it appears this bug has been squashed. There are at least a dozen different causes for this that may have been fixed since then. Please REOPEN only if you find isolate a very specific cause. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: for some reason X will not load correctly. It hangs endlessly with the default background and an hourglass. i'm able to use ctrl-alt-1 to run "top". when i do this, i notice that gdmgreeter is using 50% of the CPU and keeps restarting (it keeps changing its PID). any ideas how to fix this? my packages were update via rawhide as of yesterday. this problem has occurred since i first updated from rawhide after installing FC Core 2 Test 1. any help would be greatly appreciated... in the meantime, i guess i'll have to keep ssh'ing into the box and running X apps from it. thanks again... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.5.90-2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the machine 2. 3. Additional info: