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Bug #1262

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Problem with new PAM and xdm

Added by dillon about 15 years ago. Updated about 15 years ago.

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Description

The new PAM seems to be making callbacks to xdm after xdm has
destroyed its toplevel widget, causing xdm to crash. I was
able to hack xdm to ignore the callbacks after the toplevel widget
is destroyed but I think the problem may be with PAM and not with
xdm.

Is anyone else seeing this problem?  Basically xdm stops working.
    You login to X and it just seg-faults and goes back to the console.
-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
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 #1

Updated by Johannes.Hofmann about 15 years ago

Yes, I'm also seeing that.

Johannes
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Updated by dillon about 15 years ago

:> xdm.
:>
:> Is anyone else seeing this problem? Basically xdm stops working.
:> You login to X and it just seg-faults and goes back to the console.
:
:Yes, I'm also seeing that.
:
: Johannes

Sephe found similar bugs reported w/ linux and FreeBSD.  It's a bug
    in xdm but the easiest solution is to adjust the PAM config file for
    xdm.
Comment out the 'session' line in /etc/pam.d/xdm and the problem
    should go away.
I will change the defaults in the repo.
-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
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Updated by Johannes.Hofmann about 15 years ago

Yes, that helps.

Thanks,
Johannes

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