Bug 403961

Summary: Gdm crashes after chooser selection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Philippe Troin <phil>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Philippe Troin 2007-11-29 07:03:48 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up gdm with a theme that display the remote login button (eg. circles) as
the default theme is very limited (ahem).
2. Click on "Remote login via XDMCP"
3. Pick a host that runs XDMCP
4. See gdm crash
5. The following is logged:
kernel: gdm-binary[10567]: segfault at 000004d0 eip 00885328 esp bf922a80 error 4
gdm-binary[10350]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: child 10567 crashed of signal 11
gdm-binary[10350]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its
children

Comment 1 Philippe Troin 2007-11-29 07:04:46 UTC
Created attachment 272271 [details]
Proposed fix

This fixes it for me.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-11-29 15:52:19 UTC
Hey,

Mind sending this upstream?  If you're too busy, I can do it.

Comment 3 Philippe Troin 2007-11-30 05:33:30 UTC
Please go ahead.
Should I bother filing bugs with you guys if your policy is to "wait for
upstream fixes"?
Phil.

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-11-30 15:02:27 UTC
If the bugs are distro specific (or if you aren't sure) then it makes sense to
file here.  Also, if the bug is high priority (like crashes like this one), then
filing here is right.

This particular case I asked you to move upstream because there's a lot of xdmcp
changes going into the next upstream release, so it makes sense to get this bit
in too.

I watch upstream bugzilla and work on upstream GDM bugs (along with a couple
other people).

In most cases, all fixes need to go to upstream bugzilla anyway, though (either
sooner or later), so if you have a patch already, upstream makes sense.

One situation we try to avoid is carrying a bunch of fixes that never make it
upstream, because then everyone loses.  We have to maintain a patch as the
source code changes, and the other distros don't get to take advantage of fixes.


Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-11-30 18:32:04 UTC
Hi Philippe,

Matthias already built GDM 2.20.2 into updates-testing which has a fix similiar
to yours already applied.

Would you mind giving it a try?

The update is here:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-3951

and the builds are here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=25699

(or you can get them from yum using  yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gdm)


Comment 6 A S Alam 2008-01-18 06:36:56 UTC
Is there anyway to test Remote host on rawhide gdm-2.21.x? 


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Comment 8 Jon Stanley 2008-11-26 17:36:57 UTC
As this bug is in MODIFIED, Fedora believes that a fix has been committed that resolves the problem listed in this bug report.

If this is not the case, please re-open this report, noting the version of the package that you reproduced the bug against.

Thanks for the report!