Hi, thanks for maintaining GDM. I got similar symptoms, i.e. gdm crashing on first login attempt with signal 6 and then being slow but working. I tracked this down to the pam_authenticate call in daemon/verify-pam.c. For me, this was likely caused by libpam-thinkfinger (i.e. removing and reinstalling turned the crshing off and on, also, judging by the bug-reports, it seems to be crash-happy) after a kernel update to Debian's linux 2.6.29(?). Just a thought, apologies for the noise.
Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org