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gdm: doesn't start sessions with libnss_ldap

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:48:20 -0500

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.8-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:

gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

Putting gdm into debug mode seems to be a workaround, but then clutters
the logs with useless junk. 

This is happening all workstations at my office, so it dosnt seem to
be a single incident. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.29-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.63                Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-terminal-em 0.4.2-11            Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf              1.4.30.13           Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.27             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  eterm [x-terminal-em 0.9.2-8             Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  gksu                 1.2.5-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.8.1-6             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.3.2-1           KDE X terminal emulator
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.16-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-20        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.1-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-22             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-22             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.8.1-3             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.22-1              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-8           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-7            GNOME XML library
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emu 1:2.6.4-6.2         VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  wterm [x-terminal-em 6.2.9-6.2           An rxvt based, color xterm replace
ii  xbase-clients        4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X terminal emulator
ii  xvt [x-terminal-emul 2.1-18              X terminal-emulator similar to xte
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-3           compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
  shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm

Message #10 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:50:02 -0700

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
> username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
> then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:
> 
> gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.

Message #15 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:02:19 -0500

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Ryan Murray wrote:
| On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|
|>After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
|>username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
|>then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:
|>
|>gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
|
|
| And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
| problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.
|

The file is blank.  Note that the sesision type did not change, and this
behavior happens regargless of the session selected, or which user.
This is happening on close to 150 workstations here.  As near as I can
tell, the session is never starting at all (startkde for most)

Jay

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Message #20 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:26:20 -0700

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:02:19AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
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> 
> Ryan Murray wrote:
> | On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> |
> |>After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
> |>username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
> |>then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:
> |>
> |>gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> |
> |
> | And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
> | problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.
> |
> 
> The file is blank.  Note that the sesision type did not change, and this
> behavior happens regargless of the session selected, or which user.
> This is happening on close to 150 workstations here.  As near as I can
> tell, the session is never starting at all (startkde for most)

And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)

Message #25 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:30:31 -0500

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Ryan Murray wrote:
| On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:02:19AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|
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|>Ryan Murray wrote:
|>| On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|>|
|>|>After a recent upgrade of gdm, logins "fail".  A user inputs
|>|>username/password/securID login, it succeeds, goes to a black screen,
|>|>then back to login.  Here is the output to daemon.log:
|>|>
|>|>gdm[23126]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
|>|
|>|
|>| And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
|>| problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.
|>|
|>
|>The file is blank.  Note that the sesision type did not change, and this
|>behavior happens regargless of the session selected, or which user.
|>This is happening on close to 150 workstations here.  As near as I can
|>tell, the session is never starting at all (startkde for most)
|
|
| And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)
|
It seems truncated, but here it is:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 20050223080930
joshk@tripleh
elix.org)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 23 February 2005

This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any
way.  Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see
<URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >.

We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command
to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as
possible.

Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ:
~       XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml
~  plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz

Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.29-1-686 (root@moscc.ahpcrc.org) (gcc
version 3.3.4
~ (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) #1 Tue Mar 1 10:12:28 CST 2005 TF
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
~         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
~         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu May 12 10:59:33 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"




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Message #30 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:08:38 -0700

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:30:31AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> |>| And what is in the user's ~/.xsession-errors ?  I have a feeling your
> |>| problem is in the session startup, and nothing to do with gdm.
> |>|
> |>
> |>The file is blank.  Note that the sesision type did not change, and this
> |>behavior happens regargless of the session selected, or which user.
> |>This is happening on close to 150 workstations here.  As near as I can
> |>tell, the session is never starting at all (startkde for most)
> |
> |
> | And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)
> |
> It seems truncated, but here it is:
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 20050223080930
> joshk@tripleh
> elix.org)
> Release Date: 15 August 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9 i686 [ELF]
> Build Date: 23 February 2005
> 
> This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
> Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any
> way.  Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see
> <URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >.
> 
> We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command
> to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as
> possible.
> 
> Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ:
> ~       XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml
> ~  plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz
> 
> Module Loader present
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.29-1-686 (root@moscc.ahpcrc.org) (gcc
> version 3.3.4
> ~ (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) #1 Tue Mar 1 10:12:28 CST 2005 TF
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> ~         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> ~         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu May 12 10:59:33 2005
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"

And all the rotated logs are the same? (:0.log.1, .2, .3...)

Message #35 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:11:17 -0500

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Ryan Murray wrote:
|>| And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)
|>|
|>It seems truncated, but here it is:
|>
|>XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 20050223080930
|>joshk@tripleh
|>elix.org)
|>Release Date: 15 August 2003
|>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
|>Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9 i686 [ELF]
|>Build Date: 23 February 2005
|>
|>This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
|>Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any
|>way.  Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see
|><URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >.
|>
|>We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command
|>to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as
|>possible.
|>
|>Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ:
|>~       XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml
|>~  plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz
|>
|>Module Loader present
|>OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.29-1-686 (root@moscc.ahpcrc.org) (gcc
|>version 3.3.4
|>~ (Debian 1:3.3.4-13)) #1 Tue Mar 1 10:12:28 CST 2005 TF
|>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
|>~         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
|>~         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
|>(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu May 12 10:59:33 2005
|>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
|
|
| And all the rotated logs are the same? (:0.log.1, .2, .3...)
|

Yes.  It appears the X server is dieing. after authentication.
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Message #40 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:29:33 -0500

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> Ryan Murray wrote:
> |>| And in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ?  (It'll rotate to .1 when restarting)
> |>|
> |>It seems truncated, but here it is:

Truncated...

(...)

> Yes.  It appears the X server is dieing. after authentication.

You don't happen to have a full disk or ran out of quota, right? I do
have experiences with failed logins when stuff can't write to disk (temp
files, log files, ...)

--Jeroen

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Message #45 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:08:30 -0500

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| You don't happen to have a full disk or ran out of quota, right? I do
| have experiences with failed logins when stuff can't write to disk (temp
| files, log files, ...)

Disks have plenty of space (~80G free) and every user is affected, even
those without quotas.

Jay
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Message #50 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>

To: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Cc: jay@ahpcrc.org

Subject: Bug#308825,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:45:30 +0200

Hi,

I did not found any hints on this in the bug report, so maybe it's worth asking:

You see any unexpected messages in dmesg or any system logs? Are there any
errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?

Thanks,
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Message #55 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:49:30 -0500

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Alexander Sack wrote:
| I did not found any hints on this in the bug report, so maybe it's
worth asking:
|
| You see any unexpected messages in dmesg or any system logs? Are there any
| errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?

No, nothing of the sort.  However, I am starting to lean towrads
libnss-ldap being the issue.  Bug #302296
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302296) does not
describe the error exactly, but much of the behavior is the same. Im
testing today on this..

Jay


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Message #60 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:41:01 -0700

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
> | I did not found any hints on this in the bug report, so maybe it's
> worth asking:
> |
> | You see any unexpected messages in dmesg or any system logs? Are there any
> | errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
> 
> No, nothing of the sort.  However, I am starting to lean towrads
> libnss-ldap being the issue.  Bug #302296

Ahh, you didn't mention this!  There is/was an ABI conflict between the two,
which would cause this.  I can't find the bug atm, but this will be the problem.
Either two libdbs, two libgnutls's, or something of that nature which then
causes the gdm process to segfault.  Last time I followed up on it, the
maintainer of the conflicting package didn't want to change ABI before sarge,
so this combination just won't work.

Message #65 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:59:59 -0500

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Ryan Murray wrote:
|>No, nothing of the sort.  However, I am starting to lean towrads
|>libnss-ldap being the issue.  Bug #302296
|
|
| Ahh, you didn't mention this!  There is/was an ABI conflict between
the two,
| which would cause this.  I can't find the bug atm, but this will be
the problem.
| Either two libdbs, two libgnutls's, or something of that nature which then
| causes the gdm process to segfault.  Last time I followed up on it, the
| maintainer of the conflicting package didn't want to change ABI before
sarge,
| so this combination just won't work.
|


Heh..  its hard to mention all the relevant parts, we have such a
complex setup here you sometimes just have to assume certain pices are
working.  It appears that this nss-ldap issues is breaking a pam module
(not used by GDM) as well, which is what brought my attention to this.
If you find the bug number, I would be interested in reading up on it.

Jay


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Message #70 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:17:40 -0700

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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:41:01AM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> > Alexander Sack wrote:
> > | I did not found any hints on this in the bug report, so maybe it's
> > worth asking:
> > |
> > | You see any unexpected messages in dmesg or any system logs? Are there any
> > | errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
> > 
> > No, nothing of the sort.  However, I am starting to lean towrads
> > libnss-ldap being the issue.  Bug #302296

> Ahh, you didn't mention this!  There is/was an ABI conflict between the two,
> which would cause this.  I can't find the bug atm, but this will be the problem.
> Either two libdbs, two libgnutls's, or something of that nature which then
> causes the gdm process to segfault.  Last time I followed up on it, the
> maintainer of the conflicting package didn't want to change ABI before sarge,
> so this combination just won't work.

We are, thankfully, down to one gnutls, one gcrypt, and one sasl in sarge;
and AFAIK libdbs have been fixed long ago not to conflict.

There is still one outstanding issue in sarge with the fact that libldap2
currently provides both libldap.so.2 and libldap_r.so.2 with identical
exported symbols, differing only in the claim that one is thread-safe.  This
is fixed in libldap2 2.1.30-7 in unstable by making one a symlink to the
other, but bug #309485 is keeping this out of testing for the moment.

Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before doing so,
would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it fixes
your problem?

Cheers,
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postmodern programmer

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Message #75 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:51:05 -0500

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Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:41:01AM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
|
|>On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:49:30PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|>
|>>Alexander Sack wrote:
|>>| I did not found any hints on this in the bug report, so maybe it's
|>>worth asking:
|>>|
|>>| You see any unexpected messages in dmesg or any system logs? Are
there any
|>>| errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
|>>
|>>No, nothing of the sort.  However, I am starting to lean towrads
|>>libnss-ldap being the issue.  Bug #302296
|
|
|>Ahh, you didn't mention this!  There is/was an ABI conflict between
the two,
|>which would cause this.  I can't find the bug atm, but this will be
the problem.
|>Either two libdbs, two libgnutls's, or something of that nature which then
|>causes the gdm process to segfault.  Last time I followed up on it, the
|>maintainer of the conflicting package didn't want to change ABI before
sarge,
|>so this combination just won't work.
|
|
| We are, thankfully, down to one gnutls, one gcrypt, and one sasl in sarge;
| and AFAIK libdbs have been fixed long ago not to conflict.
|
| There is still one outstanding issue in sarge with the fact that libldap2
| currently provides both libldap.so.2 and libldap_r.so.2 with identical
| exported symbols, differing only in the claim that one is thread-safe.
 This
| is fixed in libldap2 2.1.30-7 in unstable by making one a symlink to the
| other, but bug #309485 is keeping this out of testing for the moment.
|
| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before doing so,
| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it fixes
| your problem?

That did not change anything.  libldap.so.2.0.15 did not exist before I
upgraded to libldap2 2.1.30-6, though.   Here are relevant package versions:

ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
libldap2       2.1.30-6
libnss-ldap    238-1
libpam-ldap    178-1
gdm            2.6.0.8-1

Did I miss something?

Jay

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Message #80 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:21:11 -0700

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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> | Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before doing so,
> | would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it fixes
> | your problem?

> That did not change anything.  libldap.so.2.0.15 did not exist before I
> upgraded to libldap2 2.1.30-6, though.   Here are relevant package versions:

> ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
> libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
> libldap2       2.1.30-6
> libnss-ldap    238-1
> libpam-ldap    178-1
> gdm            2.6.0.8-1

> Did I miss something?

Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #85 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 08:31:51 -0500

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Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|
|>| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before
doing so,
|>| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it
fixes
|>| your problem?
|
|
|
| Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
| unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.

Oops, my mistake.  Our local repository hasnt been updated since we
started running into problems.  However, still no change with these
versions:

ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
libldap2       2.1.30-7
libldap2       2.1.30-7
libnss-ldap    238-1
libpam-ldap    178-1
gdm            2.6.0.8-1

Jay

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Message #90 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 01:28:21 -0700

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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:31:51AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> | On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> |
> |>| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before
> doing so,
> |>| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it
> fixes
> |>| your problem?

> | Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
> | unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.

> Oops, my mistake.  Our local repository hasnt been updated since we
> started running into problems.  However, still no change with these
> versions:

> ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
> libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
> libldap2       2.1.30-7
> libldap2       2.1.30-7
> libnss-ldap    238-1
> libpam-ldap    178-1
> gdm            2.6.0.8-1

Are you running nscd on this system?  (That package enjoys frequent mention
in the log of bug #302296.)  If so, can you please restart it and see if
that makes a difference?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message #95 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

Cc: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 08:42:33 -0500

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Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:31:51AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|
|>Steve Langasek wrote:
|>| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|>|
|>|>| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before
|>doing so,
|>|>| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it
|>fixes
|>|>| your problem?
|
|
|>| Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
|>| unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.
|
|
|>Oops, my mistake.  Our local repository hasnt been updated since we
|>started running into problems.  However, still no change with these
|>versions:
|
|
|>ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
|>libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
|>libldap2       2.1.30-7
|>libldap2       2.1.30-7
|>libnss-ldap    238-1
|>libpam-ldap    178-1
|>gdm            2.6.0.8-1
|
|
| Are you running nscd on this system?  (That package enjoys frequent
mention
| in the log of bug #302296.)  If so, can you please restart it and see if
| that makes a difference?

Heh- no, we avoid that like the plague.  Being a DoD site we rather not
deal
with software with a track record like that. :-) We have libnss-ldap
going directly to the ldap server.

Jay
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Message #100 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:17:14 -0700

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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:42:33AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> | On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:31:51AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> |
> |>Steve Langasek wrote:
> |>| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
> |>|
> |>|>| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before
> |>doing so,
> |>|>| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it
> |>fixes
> |>|>| your problem?
> |
> |
> |>| Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
> |>| unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.
> |
> |
> |>Oops, my mistake.  Our local repository hasnt been updated since we
> |>started running into problems.  However, still no change with these
> |>versions:
> |
> |
> |>ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
> |>libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
> |>libldap2       2.1.30-7
> |>libldap2       2.1.30-7
> |>libnss-ldap    238-1
> |>libpam-ldap    178-1
> |>gdm            2.6.0.8-1
> |
> |
> | Are you running nscd on this system?  (That package enjoys frequent
> mention
> | in the log of bug #302296.)  If so, can you please restart it and see if
> | that makes a difference?

> Heh- no, we avoid that like the plague.  Being a DoD site we rather not
> deal
> with software with a track record like that. :-) We have libnss-ldap
> going directly to the ldap server.

Ok... :)

How about restarting gdm itself?

-- 
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postmodern programmer

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Message #105 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:16:09 -0500

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Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:42:33AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|
|>Steve Langasek wrote:
|>| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:31:51AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|>|
|>|>Steve Langasek wrote:
|>|>| On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote:
|>|>|
|>|>|>| Jay, taking care to run rm -f /usr/lib/libldap.so.2.0.15 before
|>|>doing so,
|>|>|>| would you mind upgrading to the libldap2 from unstable to see if it
|>|>fixes
|>|>|>| your problem?
|>|
|>|
|>|>| Does this mean you only upgraded to 2.1.30-6?  You need 2.1.30-7 from
|>|>| unstable to check whether it's the bug we fixed.
|>|
|>|
|>|>Oops, my mistake.  Our local repository hasnt been updated since we
|>|>started running into problems.  However, still no change with these
|>|>versions:
|>|
|>|
|>|>ldap-utils     2.1.30-3
|>|>libldap-2.2-7  2.2.23-1
|>|>libldap2       2.1.30-7
|>|>libldap2       2.1.30-7
|>|>libnss-ldap    238-1
|>|>libpam-ldap    178-1
|>|>gdm            2.6.0.8-1
|>|
|>|
|>| Are you running nscd on this system?  (That package enjoys frequent
|>mention
|>| in the log of bug #302296.)  If so, can you please restart it and see if
|>| that makes a difference?
|
|
|>Heh- no, we avoid that like the plague.  Being a DoD site we rather not
|>deal
|>with software with a track record like that. :-) We have libnss-ldap
|>going directly to the ldap server.
|
|
| Ok... :)
|
| How about restarting gdm itself?
|

Restarting gdm also had no effect.

Jay

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Message #110 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>

To: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: This bug isn't RC, in my humble opinion

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:46:38 +0200

  For what it's worth, I think the severity of this bug is exaggerated.
 GDM is certainly not "unusable or mostly so" for any of the systems
 I've touched lately - indeed, this bug doesn't affect them at all.

  In fact, this bug seems to be a perfect match for the "important"
 severity:  «a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a
 package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.»

  But then again, I'm no release manager..

Regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson

Message #117 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: This bug isn't RC, in my humble opinion

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 15:38:29 -0700

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:46:38PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
>   For what it's worth, I think the severity of this bug is exaggerated.
>  GDM is certainly not "unusable or mostly so" for any of the systems
>  I've touched lately - indeed, this bug doesn't affect them at all.

>   In fact, this bug seems to be a perfect match for the "important"
>  severity:  «a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a
>  package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.»

>   But then again, I'm no release manager..

FWIW, although this bug has been downgraded because it's unlikely to be an
RC bug in GDM, it's also very possible that this report represents an RC bug
in some other package involved.

AFAIK, no one has yet tried to reproduce the submitter's configuration to
verify whether libnss_ldap/libpam_ldap currently work for GDM.

-- 
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postmodern programmer

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Message #122 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:12:24 +0200

        Hi,


 This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/308825>.

 Could you please try to run "getent passwd"?  Are all users displayed?

 Do you use NFS?

   Bye,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
"Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."

Message #127 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>

To: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:15:24 -0500

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Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi,
> 
> 
>  This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/308825>.
> 
>  Could you please try to run "getent passwd"?  Are all users displayed?

Yes, all users are displayed (libnss_ldap)

>  Do you use NFS?

No, but we do use OpenAFS (packages from debian)


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Message #132 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Henricus J. Holtman" <clfest@clfest.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <308825@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gdm hangs sometimes immediately after succesful login

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:01:39 -0700

Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.8-1
Followup-For: Bug #308825

and before the 'debian' window appears, telling me what stage
the setup has reached.  When the gdm is so broken it consistently
hangs at this point.  I tried resetting it with 'ctl-alt-bs'
but to no avail, it remain stuck at the same place.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.63              Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                1.4.30.13         Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                   1.10.28           Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu                   1.2.5-3           graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session          2.8.1-6           The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.8.2-2           The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.8.0-4           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1               2.4.16-1          Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.8.1-2           Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.8.1-2           The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-22      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4            2.8.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.4.2-2         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.6.4-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.8.1-2           The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.8.0-1           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.8.1-3           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         2.8.4-4           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.6.4-3           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.2-1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules         0.76-22           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         0.76-22           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               0.76-22           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.8.1-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2             2.8.1-3           SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1            1.22-1            SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0               7.6.dbs-8         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxml2                2.6.16-7          GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-man 1:2.8.8-1         A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manager] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients          4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emul 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14   X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm

Message #135 received at 308825-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alban BROWAEYS <prahal@yahoo.com>

To: 308825-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:11:44 +0200 (CEST)

About bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308825

Someone asked you what was in /var/log/gdm/:0.log ...
i feel awkward it did not ask for the other file
inthis directory :
Xauth.0 . If when gdm is down this file exists, delete
it and restart gdm. It fixed it for me in alll those
"gdm reboot though login seems to work issues".

It looks like a "bonobo" issue : i mean some gnome
applications (my bet is evolution-data-server) are
unable to close properly at session closup .

Could you test before removing Xauth.0 in a console
that you have something like:
$ps ax
...
gdm ...
gdm ...
Xfree86 [Z] ..

NB: before restarting gdm , try to kill those . If you
don't know "kill" very well i suggest installing pkill
and as root:
#pkill -KILL -f gdm
#pkill -KILL -f X

Greetings
Alban


	

	
		
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Message #144 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rob Caelers <robc@krandor.org>

To: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:34:48 +0100

Hello,

I'm experiencing similar gdm login problems in combination with
libnss-ldap. Some playing around with strace/gdb revealed the following:

1. gdm starts
2. libnss-ldap opens a (tls/ssl) connection to the LDAP server. This
connection is not closed after use. It is kept open for future LDAP lookups.
3. gdm closes all open filedescriptor (using function
gdm_close_all_descriptors defined in daemon/misc.c). This also closes
the socket used for communicating with the LDAP server.
4. gdm opens a new connection to the X server. The filedescriptor of
this connection is the same as the filedescriptor that was used for the
LDAP server connection.
5. user enters username/password.
6. libnss-ldap attempt to contact the LDAP server again, unfortunately,
the data gets send to the X-server instead. libnss-ldap does not know
its socket was closed by gdm.
7. login fails.
8. gdm restarts.

Perhaps it is possible to tell libnss-ldap not to keep its socket open,
but IMHO, the real problems is gdm. I 'fixed' the problems by commenting
out the entire implementation of gdm_close_all_descriptors. It seems to
work, though I haven't checked for side-effects/security implications...

Groetjes,
  Rob

Message #149 received at 308825-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Samuelsson <debianbts@cos.user.lysator.liu.se>

To: 308825-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gdm and libnss_ldap works for me

Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:36:22 +0100

For what it is worth, I think libnss_ldap and gdm works for me. I don't
know if I am lucky or if the bug is fixed in upstream release 2.8.0.6?
The last mail to this bug report is posted after that version entered
unstable, but maybe the debugging was made against the version in
testing? Could that please be clarified?

It could of course be something in my configuration that makes it work
for me while not working for others. (I for example don't use ldaps)
--
/Martin

Message #154 received at 308825-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rob Caelers <robc@krandor.org>

To: Martin Samuelsson <debianbts@cos.user.lysator.liu.se>, 308825-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gdm and libnss_ldap works for me

Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:53:57 +0100

Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> For what it is worth, I think libnss_ldap and gdm works for me. I don't
> know if I am lucky or if the bug is fixed in upstream release 2.8.0.6?

No. The problem is not fixed in 2.8.0.6. I still need a patched gdm to
be able to log in.

> The last mail to this bug report is posted after that version entered
> unstable, but maybe the debugging was made against the version in
> testing? Could that please be clarified?

My analysis was against a 2.6 version of gdm from unstable. However,
2.8.0.6 (also from unstable) still contains the same code and same bug
as 2.6.

> It could of course be something in my configuration that makes it work
> for me while not working for others. (I for example don't use ldaps)

With TLS disabled, I still can't login with gdm. However, the following
messages seem to be gone when TLS is disabled:

Jan  1 09:52:01 ensor isdnlog: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server...
Jan  1 09:52:01 ensor isdnlog: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server
after 1 attempt(s)

As far as I remember, this problem surfaced months after the last update
 of libnss-ldap or openldap, so perhaps something else is causing the
problem. Furthermore, I also have a computer that doesn't have this
problem. The only difference between the two computers is that the
'broken' one runs nscd. Well, at least for a very short time:

robc:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nscd start
Starting Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
robc:~$ ps auxw | grep nscd
root      8519  0.4  0.4  11528  2288 ?        Ssl  19:44   0:00
/usr/sbin/nscd
robc      8529  0.0  0.1   1656   532 pts/0    S+   19:44   0:00 grep nscd
robc:~$ sudo strace -p 8519
Process 8519 attached - interrupt to quit
time(NULL)                              = 1136141081
epoll_wait(10, bff5d91c, 100, 29988)    = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++

Needs further investigation.

Groetjes,
  Rob

Message #159 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rob Caelers <robc@krandor.org>

To: Martin Samuelsson <debianbts@cos.user.lysator.liu.se>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gdm and libnss_ldap works for me

Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:24:44 +0100

Hello,

I managed to solve the problem without patching gdm.

It seems nscd is crashing. See debian bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336310

After removing the nscd cache (/var/db/nscd), nscd no longer crashes and
gdm lets me login again!

Groetjes,
  Rob

Message #164 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Samuelsson <debianbts@cos.user.lysator.liu.se>

To: Rob Caelers <robc@krandor.org>

Cc: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gdm and libnss_ldap works for me

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:39:54 +0100

Rob Caelers @ 2006-01-01 (Sunday), 21:24 (+0100)
> It seems nscd is crashing.

Ok. I keep nscd disabled because I find it buggy, and I'm glad you
traced your problem removing it.

However, an earlier message in this bug report mentioned affection of a
system without nscd installed. It looks like there are at least two
separate bugs here.
--
/Martin

Message #169 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-debian.org@fifthhorseman.net>

To: 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libnss-ldap and gdm trouble (and patch)

Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:44:28 -0500

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hi there--

i've run into this problem (or something very similar) with the
version of gdm in ubuntu 5.10 (gdm 2.8.0.5-0ubuntu1).  my
/etc/nsswitch.conf uses "ldap compat", and i've removed nscd entirely.
i'm not using LDAP for PAM at all (preferring krb5 authentication).

Thanks to the suggestions by Rob Caelers in this bug, i looked into
problems with gdm_close_all_descriptors(), and reported my findings
upstream to what looks like the relevant gdm GNOME bug [0].  With
Brian Cameron's help, i found and removed a single offending call to
gdm_close_all_descriptors() in daemon/display.c, and now gdm
successfully works for logging in.

the patch i used against the ubuntu version was this:

diff -Nur gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c
- --- gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c	2005-07-19 03:53:42.000000000 -0400
+++ gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c	2006-03-16 13:53:58.000000000 -0500
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
 	closelog ();
 
 	/* Close everything */
- -	gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */);
+	if (0) gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */);
 
 	/* No error checking here - if it's messed the best response
          * is to ignore & try to continue */


i hope this helps other people to resolve this bug.  let me know if i
can be of further assistance with it.

	--dkg

[0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315846
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Message #174 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

To: 308825@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org, gdm@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: libnss-ldap and gdm trouble (and patch)

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:09:02 +0200

# proposed patch worked for the submitter
tags 308825 + patch
# upstream has closed the bug with 2.14 series
tags 308825 + moreinfo
stop

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> i've run into this problem (or something very similar) with the
> version of gdm in ubuntu 5.10 (gdm 2.8.0.5-0ubuntu1).  my
> /etc/nsswitch.conf uses "ldap compat", and i've removed nscd entirely.
> i'm not using LDAP for PAM at all (preferring krb5 authentication).
> 
> Thanks to the suggestions by Rob Caelers in this bug, i looked into
> problems with gdm_close_all_descriptors(), and reported my findings
> upstream to what looks like the relevant gdm GNOME bug [0].  With
> Brian Cameron's help, i found and removed a single offending call to
> gdm_close_all_descriptors() in daemon/display.c, and now gdm
> successfully works for logging in.
> 
> the patch i used against the ubuntu version was this:
> 
> diff -Nur gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c
> - --- gdm-2.8.0.5/daemon/display.c	2005-07-19 03:53:42.000000000 -0400
> +++ gdm-2.8.0.5.new/daemon/display.c	2006-03-16 13:53:58.000000000 -0500
> @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
>  	closelog ();
>  
>  	/* Close everything */
> - -	gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */);
> +	if (0) gdm_close_all_descriptors (0 /* from */, fds[0] /* except */, slave_fifo_pipe_fd /* except2 */);
>  
>  	/* No error checking here - if it's messed the best response
>           * is to ignore & try to continue */
> 
> 
> i hope this helps other people to resolve this bug.  let me know if i
> can be of further assistance with it.
> 
> 	--dkg
> 
> [0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315846
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-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

Message #179 received at 308825@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

To: Jay Kline <jay@ahpcrc.org>, 308825@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#308825: ,gdm logins fail to start sessions

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:10:00 +0200

        Hi,

 This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/308825>.

 This bug has been reported as fixed in the 2.14 series, do you confirm
 it is solved for you with the current gdm packages from unstable?

   Thanks,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

Message #192 received at 308825-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>

To: 308825-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#308825: fixed in gdm 2.16.1-1

Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:32:14 -0800

Source: gdm
Source-Version: 2.16.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gdm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gdm_2.16.1-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.16.1-1.diff.gz
gdm_2.16.1-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.16.1-1.dsc
gdm_2.16.1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.16.1-1_i386.deb
gdm_2.16.1.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.16.1.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 308825@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> (supplier of updated gdm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:02:36 -0800
Source: gdm
Binary: gdm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.16.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Changed-By: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
Description: 
 gdm        - GNOME Display Manager
Closes: 240991 288286 291187 308825 339965 350940 362925 367232 372949 375281 377934 379198 382698 387043 389466 390414 392611 394881 395003
Changes: 
 gdm (2.16.1-1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * New upstream release
     + Fixes CVE-2006-2452 (closes: #375281)
     + Failsafe session no longer made default (closes: #382698)
     + Typo fixed in fr.po (closes: #392611)
     + multiple login dialog updated (closes: #395003)
     + SuspendCommand works (closes: #367232)
     + gdmsetup image screen scrolling works (closes: #288286)
   * Fix typo in fr.po (closes: #372949)
   * Set RelaxPermissions=1 by default (closes: #339965)
   * Don't close all descriptors before starting the slave. (closes: #308825)
   * Parse /etc/default/locale in gdm pam files, for now (closes: #389466)
   * Set console to utf-8 if needed in XKeepsCrashing (closes: #387043)
   * Remove OK and Cancel buttons from included themes (closes: #377934)
   * Add debian-moreblue theme from
     http://cdd.debian-br.org/~si0ux/artwork/debian/gdm/gdm-theme-debian-moreblue.tar.gz
   * Temporarily raise to Depends on gdm-themes, and make the debblue theme
     default for now (closes: #350940)
   * Add /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions to SessionDir (closes: #240991)
   * add acpid to Should-Start line of init.d script (closes: #390414)
   * Sync debconf templates against xdm 1.0.5-1
   * Sync locale.conf against locales 2.3.6.ds1-7
   * Stop installing factory-defaults.conf (closes: #394881)
   * Hide stderr from cat in init script, create /etc/X11/default-display-manager
     when the package is installed with tasksel (closes: #379198)
   * Hardcode StandardXServer to /usr/bin/X (closes: #362925)
   * Start gdm at S21 instead of S99 (closes: #291187)
Files: 
 d7a00ff3307cb384e2ed628910ed82aa 783 gnome optional gdm_2.16.1-1.dsc
 a2e68fac4763f1cf1050eeb19accb43f 4878838 gnome optional gdm_2.16.1.orig.tar.gz
 3025ca755c69b5ec801354d0f0458fc5 321935 gnome optional gdm_2.16.1-1.diff.gz
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