From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030822 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Description of problem: My home directory is on server, shared with NFS. On client workstation /home uses automounter (autofs) and mounts automatically home directories from server when they're used. However, after boot or after mount is unused and expired (unmounted), any login attempt with gdm fails popping up a window stating "... session took less than 10 seconds. etc ..." .xsession-errors contains only two lines: /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 mikko When first attempt fails, home directory gets mounted somewhere in progress and second attempt succeeds. Login on console works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.4.4.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. Try to log in using gdm => failure 3. Try again => works Actual Results: First login attempt fails. Expected Results: Home directory should be mounted and login succeed. Additional info: /etc/auto.home: * utopia:/export/home/& automount is up and running. Server is RH7.3 and it's IP is listed in /etc/hosts. The same setup used to work on RH9. The problem started during Severn beta1, I can't remember if it was after upgrade to Gnome 2.4 or with installation of beta1.
*Shamed* It seems that this is a not bug after all, but a interaction of keychain-script and gdm started ssh-agent. Keychain was killing the other copy of ssh-agent that was started by gdm, causing X session to terminate prematurely. This didn't happen in previous versions of Redhat Linux since those didn't start ssh-agent from gdm as Fedora 1 does.