Bug 66949 – gdm puts unexecutable .c source file in /etc/X11/Xsession

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description texon 2004-10-10 01:02:36 UTC]

gdm versions 2.6.x have never allowed any login except to gnome failsafe, and the xsession error file says it could not execute '/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession'.  I looked at the Xsession file and it is a .c source file.  Previous versions of gdm, eg 2.4.x, has a !/bin/sh script file there.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="~x86" emerge gdm
2. gdm
3. select any gnome login except failsafe (from botton session menu)
4. try to login as usual

Actual Results:  
An error message that it could not login, and would you like to view the errors
files, then I said yes, and it said it couldn't execute Xsession, and no wonder,
since its a 'c' file.

Expected Results:  
Gdm should have just logged me in to my default gnome desktop.

This bug has been here forever; I've just grown accustomed to selecting
'failsafe' when I log in.  Shouldn't someone else have noticed?  I couldn't find
any other bug report on this issue, although a few other reports have suggested
that one just copy the 'Xsession' file from /usr/portage.../gdm/... to
/etc/X11/gdm, but those were for an earlier 2.4 release of gdm.  This 2.6
release has the same 'c' file in
/usr/portage/gnome-base/gdm/files/2.6.0/Xsession, so there's no help from just
copying it into /etc/X11/gdm.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-10 10:48:13 UTC]

what do you mean with a 'c' file ? an executable ? thats allright, it's a shell script

[Comment 2 texon 2004-10-10 15:11:44 UTC]

No, I mean a file that contains 'c' code, and _should_ be a .c file somewhere until it is compiled and linked.

Heres 'head -n 20 /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession' :

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "../config.h"
#include "../mp_msg.h"
#include "../cpudetect.h"

#include "img_format.h"
#include "mp_image.h"
#include "vf.h"

#include "../libvo/fastmemcpy.h"


struct metrics {
        /* difference: total, even lines, odd lines */
        int d, e, o;
        /* noise: temporal, spacial (current), spacial (past) */
        int t, s, p;

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-10 15:22:32 UTC]

your checkout is messed up, this is certainly not the file in cvs & you couldve checked that yourself by checking viewcvs.

Anyway, just for reference attach your full 'Xsession' please.

[Comment 4 texon 2004-10-10 20:16:34 UTC]

Created attachment 41498 [details]
emerged /usr/portage/gnome-base/gdm/files/2.6.0/Xsession 

'emerge sync' gave this gdm Xsession file.

[Comment 5 texon 2004-10-10 20:17:51 UTC]

What 'checkout' is messed up?  I got my file from 'emerge sync' and I haven't used cvs yet.  If I can get this file via 'emerge sync' then maybe this bug is an emerge bug and not a gdm bug, but its still pretty messed up.

Here is the 'ls -l' of my /usr/portage/gnome-base/gdm/files/2.6.0:
total 13
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 6198 Aug  8 06:08 Xsession
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  301 Aug  8 06:08 custom.desktop
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  136 Aug  8 06:08 pam.d
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   80 Aug  8 06:08 security

and the full Xsession file is attached.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-11 03:34:17 UTC]

'checkout' as in 'sync' obviously

and if its alright in cvs it's a problem either with your mirror or your machine, not much i can do anything about. If it's really a mirror problem (!not your machine!) then you can maybe file a bug about the mirror, but i doubt it because you are the only one reporting it.

Just delete your portdir and do a fresh resync.

[Comment 7 texon 2004-10-11 17:32:19 UTC]

Thanks, but I figured out from your last post that a rm and resync would probably fix the problem, and it did.