Bug 441971 - [RHEL5] GDM sometimes doesn't come back after ctrl-alt-backspace
Summary: [RHEL5] GDM sometimes doesn't come back after ctrl-alt-backspace
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gdm
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-10 21:55 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2009-09-02 11:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 11:28:36 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
fix ctrl-alt-backspace shortly after login makes gdm restart slow/ not at all (554 bytes, patch)
2008-04-10 21:56 UTC, Ray Strode [halfline]
no flags Details | Diff
get rid of the "Greeter appears to be crashing, staring plain greeter" message when ctrl-alt-backspacing within 5 seconds of login screen loading (1.13 KB, patch)
2008-04-10 21:57 UTC, Ray Strode [halfline]
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1364 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: gdm security and bug fix update 2009-09-01 10:59:13 UTC

Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-04-10 21:55:28 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #183499 +++

Problem description:
After login to the system in the GNOME GUI mode, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp
resets the X server.
After several times of resetting X server in this way, the X
windows goes down and stays down without being restarted.
What should happen is the X window should restart after several
seconds and return to the GUI login.
Note that, If I use KDE, no such problem.


Hardware Environment
    Machine type: Intellistation M Pro (6218). But this defect can also be
    reproduced on other machine, so it is not machine dependent.

Is this reproducible? Yes.
    If so, how long does it (did it) take to reproduce it? Very often
    Describe the steps:

1. GUI login to GNOME session.
2. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Bksp to reset the X server.
3. It will (or will not ) come to GUI login panel.
4. If it comes to GUI login panel, then repeat step1 to 3. 
5. Finally the X windows goes down and stays down without being restarted.
 

Additional information:
The gdm version in RHEL4U2 is 2.6.0.5

I was able to recreate this issue on a x86-64 m/c with RHEL4 U2 on it - though 
it took some 8-10 tries.
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-- Additional comment from tao on 2006-03-01 10:48 EST --
From User-Agent: XML-RPC

I'm not reproducing the exact problem described here (everytime I use
ctrl-alt-bksp after being logged in I always go back to the gdm login
screen). If I hit ctrl-alt-bksp in the gdm login screen I will sometimes
see it restart with xdm instead after getting a message that gdb had
crashed.

----- Additional Comments From mranweil.com (prefers email at
mjr.com)  2007-08-10 13:43 EDT -------
fyi - I can recreate this on the RHEL5 base.  Doesn't look like there's
a fix
for 4.6 at this point, so maybe we want to look at fixing RHEL5 first. 


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-- Additional comment from rstrode on 2008-04-10 16:59 EST --
I was able to reproduce both issues and address them.

Problem should be fixed in gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.18

marking MODIFIED for QA.

(note this bug is a duplicate of bug 165515)

We should clone this bug to address it in RHEL5, as per comment 41

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-04-10 21:56:23 UTC
Created attachment 302080 [details]
fix ctrl-alt-backspace shortly after login makes gdm restart slow/ not at all

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-04-10 21:57:15 UTC
Created attachment 302081 [details]
get rid of the "Greeter appears to be crashing, staring plain greeter" message when ctrl-alt-backspacing within 5 seconds of login screen loading

Comment 4 Daniel Riek 2008-07-29 21:06:46 UTC
Moving to 5.4 because of re-prioritization.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:28:36 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html


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