Bug 472247

Summary:	If gdm cannot find a binary in a .desktop env file it hangs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Shawn Starr <shawn.starr>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	jmccann
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	cschalle, jmccann, rstrode
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Description Shawn Starr 2008-11-19 15:56:05 UTC

Description of problem:
If creating a new .desktop for a desktop environment to start has a executable binary missing that is listed in the file GDM will hang when you try to log into system

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.24.0-12.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new .desktop file that will have a new desktop env to start
2. Restart X, when clicking on your username it will hang trying to log in.
  
* Note the Session combo box does not appear and you get a hang.

Actual results:
Hangs GDM

Expected results:
Starts the new desktop session

Additional info:
For my testing I was trying to use kdm that is from SVN (trunk build of KDE 4.2) which I install in /usr/local/kde4/ because I cleaned out my build and restarted X, I noticed gdm was stuck, when I reinstalled kdm and restarted X. it worked again.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:36:45 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 12:40:10 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:53:18 UTC

Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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