Bug 490566

rpm -q  xorg-x11-xinit-session
please.

In the meantime, I'll see if I can reproduce.

Curious, what is the contents of your ~/.xsession ?

rpm -q  xorg-x11-xinit-session gives:

xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.0.9-4.fc10.x86_64

It works fine when I run GDM.

My .xsession file is kinda complex and invokes some programs I wrote
myself, but for what it is worth, here it is:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom users 1942 Mar 16 19:53 /home/tom/.xsession*

#!/bin/bash
exec >> $HOME/.xsession-errors 2>&1
echo ''
echo Starting X session `date`
set +x
killall -9 gnome-keyring-daemon
ps f -u tom
#
# Try everything possible to disable every kind of power saver mode.
# The radeon driver seems to flake out the monitor after power saver
# kicks in 1st time...
#
#xset s off
#xset dpms 0 0 0
#xset -dpms
#setterm -blank 0
#setterm -powersave off
#setterm -powerdown 0
#
SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
export SSH_ASKPASS
kill_agent="no"
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]
then
   echo .xsession starting ssh-agent
   eval `ssh-agent -s`
   kill_agent="yes"
else
   echo ssh-agent already started
fi
xhost +
if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]
then
   echo .xsession starting dbus
   eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
else
   echo dbus already started
fi
#
# Tricky bit - the /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon program is good to
# run to revive the font settings, but it also revives all sorts of
# useless crap I don't want, so start it, wait a bit and then remove
# all the crap it adds to the xrdb database.
#
# Breaking news! Every damn time I connect from work via VNC, the next
# time I login to the console X session, I get a $#@! popup about
# "The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME
# keyboard settings." After near infinite amounts of poking sticks
# in random holes, I finally discovered that the $@#! gconf keys
# under /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.sysbackup need to
# be reset to make this go away, so just always reset that key before
# starting gnome-settings-daemon.
#
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.sysbackup
/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
sleep 5
xrdb -all -remove
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
nlaunch &
ps f -u tom
xmessage -geometry +0-0 -buttons 'to Log Out':1 -default 'to Log Out' 'Click Here'
killall remind
if [ "$kill_agent" = "yes" ]
then
   ssh-agent -k
fi

I notice that the /usr/share/xsessions/xinit-compat.desktop file is the
only one with a complex command to run as the Exec= parameter. I wonder
if kdm is trying to do a direct exec of the line rather than running
it through a shell to interpret the arguments properly?

I can reproduce the problem alright.

Replacing /usr/share/xsessions/xinit-compat.desktop Exec= with either
Exec=~/.xsession
or even
Exec=sh -c 'exec ~/.xsession || exec ~/.Xclients || exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients'
makes it work.  Not sure how/why the " characters are causing mischief here.

I personally suspect kdm is attempting to run the command:

'sh' '-c' '"exec' '~/.xsession' '||' ... etc.

anyway, I made a script in /usr/local/bin that runs the command

exec ~/.xsession || exec ~/.Xclients || exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients

then made a new .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions that just
runs that script, and I can login now with KDM.

Same problem here, is this now a 'xorg-x11-xinit-session' script bug or a KDM/KDE bug? And would the workaround from comment #4 (' instead of ") work also for GDM? Because then a new 'xorg-x11-xinit-session' script would fix the problem.

> And would the workaround from comment #4 (' instead of ") 
> work also for GDM?

Good question, if someone could help test that, it would be great (I'll do so myself eventually when I accumulate enough round-tuits).

Rex, how many round-tuits you got saved up?

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I strongly suspect this is still valid, rebasing.

Withdrawing some round-tuits from savings to investigate per comment #7

*** Bug 540365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Dup'ing against bug #540546 , where we're working to simplify xinit-compat instead.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 540546 ***