Ubuntu
gdm package

gdmsetup halts on futex

Bug #79660 reported by Foffa
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

I'm been experiencing trouble starting gdmsetup since upgrading to gdm 2.17.5-0ubuntu1 in Feisty from edgy.

Before upgrading everything was OK. Ran it yesterday.

strace gdmsetup halts on

futex(0x8133df0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL

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Foffa (fredrik-and) wrote :

dpkg -l "*gdm*"

ii edgy-gdm-themes 0.8-0ubuntu1
ii feisty-gdm-themes 0.8-0ubuntu2
ii gdm 2.17.5-0ubuntu1

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Foffa (fredrik-and) wrote :

And the factory gdm.conf file

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

As a workaround, use: gksu 'dbus-launch gdmsetup'

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.

Changed in gdm:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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