Bug 707985 - can enter user name, but crashes on password dialog
Summary: can enter user name, but crashes on password dialog
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 690873
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
urgent
high
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Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-26 13:44 UTC by Michael J. Chudobiak
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-06-08 12:32:19 UTC
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2011-05-26 13:44 UTC, Michael J. Chudobiak 		no flags Details
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Description Michael J. Chudobiak 2011-05-26 13:44:07 UTC 
Created attachment 501091 [details]
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I am trying to log in a network user via nis. (I can do "su - username" successfully from the command line, so nis is working OK).

I can enter the user's name in the "Other..." dialog, and the password dialog is then shown, but it is frozen. The password can not be entered. A crash is reported to /var/log/messages. The backtrace is attached.

How reproducible: 100%

gdm-3.0.0-3.fc15.x86_64

- Mike
Comment 1 Robert Marcano 2011-06-02 19:03:06 UTC 
Same problem/backtrace here but using LDAP authentication
Comment 2 Robert Marcano 2011-06-02 19:45:53 UTC 
A small workaround if the users on that machine are always the same and there are not roaming users using it, create those users locally with adduser using the same uid/gid in order to have them listed on the GDM greeter, skipping the need to write the username
Comment 3 Michael J. Chudobiak 2011-06-02 19:55:13 UTC 
See also the upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651180

I found that after adding users locally and logging in with them, gdm started working OK even if they were removed again from the local accounts.

- Mike
Comment 4 Robert Marcano 2011-06-08 12:25:44 UTC 
gdm 3.0.4 solves this issue for me, see bug #690873
Comment 5 Michael J. Chudobiak 2011-06-08 12:32:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 690873 ***
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