Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 413521
KDM times out trying to display the list of users
Last modified: 2007-12-07 05:51:35 EST
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 kdm to fail Actual results: X server starts but goes back to text console instead of showing the greeting screen with user list. Expected results: KDM starts and displays the greeter with the list of users. Additional info: This is a slow 833Mhz computer which explains a lot but is no excuse for Fedora. Setting ServerTimeout=30 in kdmrc solves the matter. This bug is the KDE version of bug 371271.
The KDM version of the same problem has been reported as bug 413521.
One correction. I copied part of the content from the GDM bug. The version number should be kdebase-3.5.8-5.fc8. Sorry.
Try setting FaceSource=AdminOnly in kdmrc (instead of PreferUser).
Re: comment 3. Why? I already gave the solution which is setting ServerTimeout=30 in kdmrc. FaceSource=AdminOnly would deface (quite literally) my greeting screen, while ServerTimeout=30 works as I expect it to work (that is showing the faces of my users)
Because there was a previous bug report which pointed to user images as the source of the slowness. But it may be a different issue for you.
Well. Yes, I do use user images and I believe they make the X server start time longer than the default time set in kdmrc on a slow computer. However, I do not understand why killing this function (user faces) is deemed the correct solution. In an ideal world the solution should be repairing the problem, not killing the function. I have two suggestions. Either the default ServerTimeout=15 should be changed or a script should be added to increase the value on slow computers. My problem is already fixed. I filed the report for the benefit of others who may have the same problem but are not expert enough to identify and correct the timeout problem.
it's now fixed in kde-settings-3.5-36 and rawhide, with default ServerTimeout=30. It will be available in F8 update soon. Thanks