Description of problem: gdm crashes. Not sure what info helps debugging this; this is on my laptop (Lenovo T60) using the internal display. X.org starts fine if I boot into runlevel 3 and run it with startx; there are also no errors in Xorg.0.log when the gdm crashes happen and gdm gets to the point where it displays the login box with the box saying just 'Other...' The only unusual things I can think of are that I have gdm set to log me in automatically, and that my homedir is automounted, though from the laptop locally, so that it is bindmounted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.22.0-5.fc9.x86_64 Additional info: The /var/log/messages is at http://lutter.fedorapeople.org/messages-gdm-crash.log.gz
This gets weirder: while I was trying to figure out what exactly causes the crash, I changed my home directory by editing /etc/passwd from /homes/lutter (the bindmounted one) to /home/lutter (ext3 file system, target of the bindmount) Sure enough, that makes gdm behave again, and the greeter comes up and I can log in. The strange thing is that when I changed my homedir back to /homes/lutter, gdm kept behaving, even after a reboot. I can now log in, even with my bindmounted homedir. Does gdm cache any information in separate files ?
not that would affect this. It stores a file in the users home directory called ~/.dmrc, and it stores some transient information per login in /var ConsoleKit stores some information about the users in /var/log/ConsoleKit. Note the gdm that shipped in F9 GA fell over in the scenario where the home directory wasn't available early enough because of a last minute change before GA. We pushed an update afterward that should address this issue (see bug 445613). The update was in the version you mentioned (gdm-2.22.0-5.fc9). Could it be you installed the update but hadn't restarted gdm yet and that's why the reboot "fixed" things?
looking at the log I see: Jun 6 09:29:03 galia console-kit-daemon[2752]: WARNING: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused This suggests the system message bus wasn't running which could cause all sorts of problems.
(In reply to comment #2) > Could it be you installed the update but hadn't restarted gdm yet and that's why > the reboot "fixed" things? No, because I went through several cycles of 'boot - gdm keeps crashing - reboot'; the crashing kept happening consistently on reboot until I changed my home dir from autofs -> local partition and then didn't reappear after a change from local partition -> autofs.
(In reply to comment #3) > Jun 6 09:29:03 galia console-kit-daemon[2752]: WARNING: Couldn't connect to > system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: > Connection refused > > This suggests the system message bus wasn't running which could cause all sorts > of problems. This is from the shutdown preceding the first time I encountered the problem; subsequent reboot attempts start at Jun 6 09:47:54
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