Your message dated Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:35:22 +0100
with message-id <1321126522.20844.2.camel@server>
and subject line Re: gdm3 seems to have a race condition when loading ~/.face
files
has caused the Debian Bug report #603596,
regarding gdm3 seems to have a race condition when loading ~/.face files
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
603596: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603596
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.5-5
Severity: minor
Hi,
gdm3 seems to have a race condition when loading ~/.face files:
When I boot my computer, my user account does not have it's custom icon,
instead the generic icon for users without ~/.face files is displayed.
However, if I click on my user account to enter my password, but use
escape to return to the main screen, the icon is displayed properly.
The icon will also be properly displayed if I login and logout again. It
will even work if I stop and start gdm3 from a virtual terminal.
I can make the icon *not* appear again, if I fill the file system cache
with other data, for example by using this:
find /usr/ -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
After that, gdm3 will not display my custom icon until it is loaded the
second time.
This behavior seems to suggest a race condition, because everything
works when ~/.face is already cached.
Please note three things:
1) I didn't experience that problem with 2.30.5-4. It started with
2.30.5-5. However, that probably only means that some change in
the later version triggered the race condition.
2) This machine does have a very slow hard drive (~30 MB/s read speed)
3) This machine does only have 1 GiB ram.
Let me know if you need any further information to reproduce the
problem!
Best regards
Alexander Kurtz
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.0.4-4
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:35 +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> after upgrading GDM to version 3.0.4-4 and manually re-setting my user
> image (via System Settings -> User Accounts), I no longer experience
> this problem. Please tell me if any of you can still reproduce it,
> otherwise I'm going to close the bug report in a few days.
Closing now.
Best regards
Alexander Kurtz
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
--- End Message ---
