Timeline for GDM hangs when home directory is inaccessible
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| May 27, 2013 at 17:33 | comment | added | d_inevitable | Once I get enough reputation, I will catch up on that. Thanks again on your efforts. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:30 | comment | added | slm♦ | It's OK, I thought of it but didn't want to ask you and seem forward about it. I was trying to drop a hint yesterday when I asked if there was anything else you expected out getting this resolved. Hopefully there will be a bug fix for this soon. Any way I learned more about GDM so it was still worth it. Good luck and it was nice working with you! | |
| May 27, 2013 at 17:25 | comment | added | d_inevitable | Damn the bounty has expired. I am really sorry. I was going to assign that to you, but it is too late now. I have totally overlooked it. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 12:41 | comment | added | d_inevitable | Hey, you just found my recent bug report to suse. Nice to see that you found the ubuntu one too. I've posted this before I was so sure of it being a bug. A workaround would be nice, atm I am using lightdm from the suse repos, which afaik is a very old version, but it works fine. So that bug on ubuntu is either for the newer version or fixed already. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 22:01 | comment | added | slm♦ | This looks like the Ubuntu version of the bug/issue: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/at-spi2-core/+bug/870874. There is some workarounds purported to work in this ticket, if you're bored you might want to try them. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 21:54 | comment | added | slm♦ | Here's the opensuse issue about this problem too: lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-05/msg01437.html. Not sure what else we can do on this. RH and SuSE are aware of the issue. Are you just looking for a workaround at this point or are you not sure if this is really your problem? The link to the RH bug is in the actual ticket for SuSE so they're narrowing focus down on it. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 21:44 | comment | added | slm♦ | I believe GDM 2.29 is before gnome-shell. OK, I'll continue looking. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 21:07 | comment | added | d_inevitable | I first suspected sss to be the problem as disabling sss or ldap would stop gdm from hanging as it would not be aware of the users with the inaccessible home-directory. They also mention GDM 2.29, that is before gnome-shell right? Here bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887937 they conclude that gnome-shell is the one crashing. So my bet would be that that bug is similar, but not related | |
| May 26, 2013 at 20:43 | comment | added | slm♦ | OK a step back. Can you read this issue, it sounds like it's related: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607233 | |
| May 26, 2013 at 20:34 | comment | added | d_inevitable | So your second link is to suggest to use pam_mount in that specified order? I have already configured it that way. It works fine until somebody opens the GDM login screen while other users are still logged in (scenario: ssh or switch user) or when pam_mount fails to unmount at logout (which does happen quite frequently). | |
| May 26, 2013 at 19:36 | comment | added | slm♦ | NP, glad it's at least a known quantity at this point. I hate things that I don't understand. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 19:35 | history | edited | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2013 at 19:32 | comment | added | d_inevitable | I really do appreciate your efforts. It feels much better now, that I am one step further to solving this. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 19:23 | comment | added | slm♦ | Awesome. I'd been looking at this issue on and off for the last few days. I'm sure it was annoying to you b/c it's not even my issue and it was annoying the heck out of me 8-). | |
| May 26, 2013 at 19:22 | comment | added | d_inevitable | Yup that redhat bug is exactly whats going on. Deleting that cache directory does indeed spawn gdm back to life. Nice find. Will look through that second link now. | |
| May 26, 2013 at 16:07 | comment | added | d_inevitable |
I have looking at how to capture the output of set -x. It seems to be none of these scripts are executed before GDM starts hanging.
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| May 26, 2013 at 4:17 | comment | added | d_inevitable | the server is Ubuntu 12.04 | |
| May 26, 2013 at 3:51 | comment | added | slm♦ | Also what is the server you're going against for your SSO? Linux or Windows? | |
| May 26, 2013 at 3:45 | comment | added | slm♦ |
Any luck with setting set -x at the top of the scripts in /etc/gdm?
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| May 26, 2013 at 3:43 | comment | added | d_inevitable |
It is weird, but I cannot exclude any of the users faces with Exclude although the debug and IncludeAll flags do work, but do not solve the problem. Debug doesn't show any related error messages. I don't see the point in removing references of $HOME as $HOME will only refer to the inaccessible user directories after the respective users have already logged in. GDM hangs before the users even get a chance to log in.
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| May 26, 2013 at 2:29 | history | edited | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2013 at 2:14 | history | edited | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2013 at 2:01 | history | answered | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |