Bug 280841

Summary:	gdmXnest and gdmXnestchooser don't work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	P Jones <bugzilla>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	7	CC:	bnocera
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Description P Jones 2007-09-06 16:00:09 UTC

Description of problem:
gdmXnest and gdmXnestchooser don't work; They call Xnest and Xnest produces an
error. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.18.4-2.fc7

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run gdmXnest or gdmXnestchooser.

3.
  
Actual results:
Xnest usage error. 

Expected results:
Running Xnest session, with login prompt.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-11-14 13:49:56 UTC

$ strace -ofoo -v gdmflexiserver -n
$ grep -i xnest foo 
sendto(5, "FLEXI_XNEST :0 500 aac1966a15510"..., 68, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 68

Looks like a define isn't getting substituted.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-11-14 15:00:50 UTC

I think it does send the literal string over the wire...

P Jones, would you mind attaching /etc/gdm/custom.conf?

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-12-17 15:54:17 UTC

I can reproduce this on my system, the custom.conf looks hopelessly empty:

$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v "^$"
[daemon]
[security]
[xdmcp]
[gui]
[greeter]
GlobalFaceDir=/usr/share/pixmaps/
[chooser]
[debug]
[servers]

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-12-17 16:26:54 UTC

okay that's fine,  empty entries get pulled from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf


What's the output of 

grep Xnest /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf ?

It could be we're setting Xnest wrong by default (I have some vague notion of
running across this bug before.  It could be I fixed it in rawhide, but not F-7)

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2007-12-17 17:29:53 UTC

Never mind, it seems to work for me in gdm-2.20.1-5.fc8

P Jones?

Comment 6 Brian Powell 2008-04-25 04:34:38 UTC

The information we've requested above is required in order
to review this problem report further and diagnose/fix the
issue if it is still present.  Since there have not been any
updates to the report since thirty (30) days or more since we
requested additional information, we're assuming the problem
is either no longer present in the current Fedora release, or
that there is no longer any interest in tracking the problem.

Setting status to "CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA".  If you still
experience this problem after updating to our latest Fedora
release and can provide the information previously requested, 
please feel free to reopen the bug report.

Thank you in advance.

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