Due to unresolved bugs[1][2][3] please mark x11-apps/xdm-1.1.9 as unstable. [1]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286923 [2]https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24588 [3]https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24589 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into X11 2. Log out of X11 Actual Results: XDM does not restart (it crashes). Expected Results: XDM is ready to log in again.
This has been reported in the gentoo forums by different users [1][2][3] and the common solution has been to revert to version x11-apps/xdm-1.1.8 [4] [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-798164-highlight-.html [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-797211-highlight-.html [3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-606545-highlight-.html [4] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-794694-highlight-.html This is the error message from xdm.log xdm error (pid 3544): Unknown session exit code 2816 from process 3811 XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 321975 requests (321953 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 63527 requests (63523 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 1926787 requests (1926780 known processed) with 0 events remaining. xdm info (pid 3544): Exiting This is from /var/log/messages: Oct 26 11:20:43 joanet xdm[3811]: segfault at b7f12361 ip b7bbda86 sp bfa53560 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7b50000+166000]
1.1.9 is still marked as stable but has been p.masked instead. Thanks
I am not sure what is policy for reporting non-bug but as this was a stable package remasked, I just wanted to say xdm-1.1.9 works fine here.
