Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505403
gdm crashes on login
Last modified: 2015-01-14 18:23:07 EST
Created attachment 347457 [details] .xsession-errors containing the crash and bunch of other funny messages Description of problem: Gdm is crashing at login semi-regularly, see the attached beauty of a backtrace from ~/.xsession-errors Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.26.1-10.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Almost every time - right after installation it worked exactly once, after that each time. I had similar experiences with F11-preview but didn't get around to test it further + report it then (other issues making it too painful to play more with the preview) It appears to be related to using hesiod: if I add a duplicate my hesiod user account locally, the crashes disappear. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup hesiod (+ kerberos for auth in my case) 2. Try to login to a to a valid account Actual results: Crash and burn, until local account is added+used instead. Expected results: The same setup worked fine in F10...
> "arguments to %s() were incorrect, assertion \"%s\" failed in file %s line > %d.\nThis is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.\n") at > dbus-internals.c:283 > gdm[2998]: #8 0x00000032fb210278 in dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block ( We're probably trying to pass non-utf8 text over the wire Can you debuginfo-install gdm and get a more complete backtrace? Also the output of getent passwd would be useful.
Created attachment 347725 [details] More detailed traceback of the crash Hmm, the above was with gdm debuginfo installed, so its some other component here... a few dozen debuginfos later :) Here's a more detailed crash. Something funny with getent, it only shows local users unless you specificy a username: [pmatilai@turre ~]$ getent passwd pmatilai pmatilai:x:500:500:Panu Matilainen:/home/pmatilai:/bin/bash [pmatilai@turre ~]$ getent passwd|grep pmatilai FWIW F10 seems to behave the same and gdm seems to be only thing that minds, I can login to the box over ssh and from a vt without problems.
gdm-2.26.1-13.fc11 Gave me similar problems. It crashes when I select username. The window starts to shrink but before it reaches the state where I can type in password it crashes and restarts... I could login clicking "other user", then writing user name and password. But I would sometimes be thrown out of gnome after a few minutes, when it crashed again. Downgrading to gdm-2.26.1-10.fc11.x86_64 helped.
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