FS#12642 - [gdm] autologin broken after recent upgrade to version 2.20.9-1

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Keerthi (keerthi) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 17:44 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 03 October 2009, 10:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
GDM no longer auto logins. Booting with run-level 5 and GDM setup via inittab.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
gdm 2.20.9-1

* config and/or log files etc.
see attached.
1. inittab
2. gdm-debug.log

Steps to reproduce:
1. Enable autologin from System -> Admin -> Login Window.
2. Under Security tab, enable automatic login. (I have also enabled debug messages to get the log attached)
3. Reboot.
4. GDM attempts to login but fails and reappears.
   gdm-debug.log (273.6 KiB)
   inittab (1 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 03 October 2009, 10:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  open a new report if the issue still happens with the latest GDM
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Saturday, 14 February 2009, 08:18 GMT
i confirm this
but autologin sometimes works and sometimes fails. i have not found what could cause this

when autologin fails, i am dropped back to the console, and then X (and gdm) is restarted because i have setup gdm in inittab.

so i have an old log for xorg /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old which ends abruptly with this line

(II) Initializing extension GLX

it might not be related to GLX because in a complete similar log like /var/log/Xorg.0.log
i've got after that same line

(II) config/hal: Adding input device Dell Dell USB Keyboard
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.1
[...]

so i begin to think this mess is because of hal. which is normally already initialised... by the time gdm is launched
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Saturday, 14 February 2009, 09:08 GMT
and i am using compiz as WM. i have not yet tested if, with the default WM, of gnome metacity it happens too
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 01 June 2009, 21:19 GMT
status with latest gdm?
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Tuesday, 02 June 2009, 10:32 GMT
with 2.20.10 it stills sometimes work sometimes fails. i still don't know the reason (and if it is upstream or not ?)
i use metacity now

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