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Bug 118100 - gdmgreeter keeps crashing endlessly
Summary: gdmgreeter keeps crashing endlessly
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FC2Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-11 22:13 UTC by mark
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-04-17 11:05:51 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

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Debug log for gdm (deleted)
2004-03-18 12:13 UTC, Adrian Rees 		no flags Details
strace of gdm (deleted)
2004-03-19 23:55 UTC, mark 		no flags Details
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Description mark 2004-03-11 22:13:46 UTC 
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:
Comment 1 mark 2004-03-11 23:47:29 UTC 
if i ctrl-alt-1 while the above description is occuring, then i see
the following error message:

gdm(pam_unix) [1190] : bad username []
Comment 2 Adrian Rees 2004-03-18 12:13:35 UTC 
Created attachment 98649 [details]
Debug log for gdm

Extract of log showing debug messages from gdm.
Comment 3 Adrian Rees 2004-03-18 12:29:22 UTC 
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
Comment 4 mark 2004-03-19 23:55:41 UTC 
Created attachment 98700 [details]
strace of gdm
Comment 5 mark 2004-03-19 23:56:31 UTC 
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
Comment 6 mark 2004-03-31 16:43:45 UTC 
after installing FC2 test2, i can no longer produce this bug... it
appears this bug has been squashed.
Comment 7 Warren Togami 2004-04-17 11:05:51 UTC 
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.
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