From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031014 Epiphany/1.0.1 Description of problem: gdmflexiserver -n :1 gdmflexiserver -n While trying to start gdmflexiserver into a nested window with '-n'option, it killed X session. Xnest works ok by itself, so it seems to be a gdm problem. Tested on three machines, with several theme gdmgreeter/gdmlogin combinations with same results (BTW, gdmsetup does not run from gdmgreeter/gdmlogin). No debug info available [at least that could be found], except for some stuff in /var/log/messages: Oct 24 02:22:05 linux gdm[21208]: GDM file gdm.c: line 2849 (N/A): Cannot run setegid to 42 Oct 24 02:22:05 linux gdm(pam_unix)[21263]: session closed for user my-user-name Those two lines were logged each time I tested 'gdmflexiserver -n :1' Software used: Fedora Core 0.95 gdm-2.4.4.5-1 XFree86-4.3.0-40 nvidia_drv from NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496 nv_drv driver from XFree86-4.3.0-40 Kernels used: 2.4.22-1.2088.nptl 2.4.22-1.2096.nptl 2.4.22-1.2105.nptl 2.4.20-20.9 Hardware: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2) nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.4.4.5-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run gdmflexiserver -n or gdmflexiserver -n :1 from any X session (GNOME, Failsafe, etc) Actual Results: X Session is terminated Expected Results: To open a nested gdm Additional info:
This might correspond to GNOME bug report <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127780>, in which case it has already been fixed upstream.
Please locate the exact cvs commit URL containing this fix and it will be considered for review in the future.
Fixed a while ago.