For gnome-base/gdm, the "49-keychain" and "50-ssh-agent" scripts copied from "${FILESDIR}" to "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/" run which to get the pathname of the keychain and ssh-agent executables, respectively. If they are not found, which outputs a message to standard error, which ends up in the user's ~/.xsession-errors file. This is different behaviour than the GNOME-supplied "80-dbus" script, which does redirect the standard error output from `which`. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove keychain (if it exists) from the path. 2. Log in with gdm 3. Examine the ~/.xsession-errors file Actual Results: The .xsession-errors file contains something like this: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... which: no keychain in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.2:/usr/games/bin) Expected Results: The standard error output from `which` should not appear in ".xsession-errors". $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.35 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo-ija1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-ija1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1, 3.1.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.7.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, 4.2.4-r1, 4.3.5, 4.4.5, 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi adns alsa amd64 avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope cups curl cxx dbus djvu doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash fontconfig fortran gdbm gdu gif glut gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib ipod ipv6 java jpeg kde kerberos lcms ldap libnotify mad matroska mikmod mmx mng modules mono motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl plotutils png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline ruby samba sasl sdl semantic-desktop session slang snmp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcltk tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vnc vorbis x264 xcb xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon ati vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
the problem is that those files should actually be provided by their respective packages. I'd be more inclined to remove them once proper keyring (ssh and gpg agents) support has been added.
What is the status of this with gdm-3?
(In reply to comment #2) > What is the status of this with gdm-3? The status is unchanged.
(In reply to comment #1) Until that permantent solution is in place, I've fixed 49-keychain and 50-ssh-agent in gdm-3.4.1-r1. Thanks for reporting.
