Description of problem: GDM times out when getting the list of users from an LDAP directory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.20.1-5.fc8 How reproducible: Almost always on my test machine (Pentium III 800, 100Mbps network link, about 300 accounts in LDAP) Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2.Wait for gdm to fail Actual results: "Failed to start the X server" dialog. Expected results: GDM starts and displays the greeter with the list of users. Additional info: Here is the relevant part of the debug log from GDM: Nov 8 14:33:30 atlas gdm-binary[2765]: DEBUG: gdm_server_spawn: '/usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt 7' Nov 8 14:33:30 atlas acpid: client connected from 2765[0:0] Nov 8 14:33:30 atlas acpid: 1 client rule loaded Nov 8 14:33:31 atlas kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 Nov 8 14:33:31 atlas kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 Nov 8 14:33:40 atlas gdm-binary[2763]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/GdmXserverTimeout=10 Nov 8 14:33:41 atlas gdm-binary[2763]:last message repeated 2 times Nov 8 14:33:41 atlas gdm-binary[2763]: DEBUG: do_server_wait: Server timeout Nov 8 14:33:41 atlas gdm-binary[2763]: DEBUG: gdm_server_start: After mainloop waiting for server Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: [drm] Initialized mga 3.2.1 20051102 on minor 0 Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode Nov 8 14:33:46 atlas kernel: [drm] Initialized card for AGP DMA. Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2763]: DEBUG: gdm_server_start: Temporary server failure (:0) Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2763]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: daemon/LogDir=/var/log/gdm Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: mainloop_sig_callback: Got signal 17 Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: gdm_cleanup_children: child 2763 returned 64 Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: Looking up per display value for greeter/SystemMenu=true Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: greeter/SystemMenu=true Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: greeter/SystemMenu=true Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: Requesting group=greeter key=SystemMenu locale=(null) Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string: greeter/SystemMenu=true Nov 8 14:33:48 atlas gdm-binary[2696]: DEBUG: X failed! Setting GdmXserverTimeout (in the daemon section of custom.conf) to a large value (I used 300 instead of the default of 10) fixes the issue.
Here is the fix, in custom.conf: [greeter] Browser=false IncludeAll=false Include= It looks like Browser=false is not enough.
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