Bug 157711 - gdmgreeter spamming syslog
Summary: gdmgreeter spamming syslog
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks: FC4Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-13 23:12 UTC by Jack Spaar
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-19 18:00:50 UTC
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Description Jack Spaar 2005-05-13 23:12:19 UTC
Description of problem:
gdmgreeter is dumping debug-style messages to syslog, despite 
debug=false in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.6.0.8-12

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login at gdmgreeter
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
/var/log/messages contains stuff like:
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode '#' are ''
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'l' are ''
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'D' are 'Please
enter your username'
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'N' are 'Username:'
May  8 18:12:30 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'D' are ''
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'l' are 'myusername'
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'U' are 'Password:'
May  8 18:13:26 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'D' are ''
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'e' are ''
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'l' are 'myusername'
May  8 18:13:27 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: processed 1 messages
May  8 18:13:28 localhost gdmgreeter[2817]: args for opcode 'G' are 'default.des

Expected results:


Additional info:
gdm.conf is pretty vanilla, and contains by default:
[debug]
# This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary
# and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog.  However it
# can be useful in determining when something is going very wrong.
Enable=false

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-05-19 18:00:50 UTC
should be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.


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