Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.10-3
Severity: important
Using xdm as session manager, after logging out from windowmanager (e16)
session user has again xdm login screen. Strangely any input typed on kbd only
gets echoed onscreen after moving the mouse. This "echo delay" includes the
enter key as well as the VT switch keys (C+A+F[1-6]{1}).
Also a password containing some unusual chars (such as #@" and the like) is not
recognised correctly then, so cannot login.
Alternatively (about every other time) the kbd input is echoed immediately (as
normal) and recognised well, but the mouse is as dead as a doornail, and is not
resurrected on entering windowmanager session. Strangely though a mouse tap
seems to be noticed -- and reacted to -- only after having typed a key on the
kbd. Pointer movement is nil, however.
This strange behaviour can be "re-set" to normal by switching to a VT and then
back to VT7.
Note: This only happens after coming back to login screen after logging out
from windowmanager session. On first login there's no problem at all (apart
from the spaces echoed by the password field, s. bug #575486).
Not sure if this comes from xdm proper or some associated xlib.
Just noticed: same behaviour is also shown by xdm 1:1.1.8-5.
As noted before, my kernel is a custom kernel out of debian linux-source-2.6.30
which I have been using since its compilation without any of these X-related
problems. Findings with std debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC
2011 i686 GNU/Linux are exactly the same.
Hardware: dell inspiron 1300 (laptop) with synaptics touchpad.
Brgds, e.
Excerpt from .xsession-errors:
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Xsession: X session started for enno at Sat Mar 5 17:12:04 CET 2011
non-network local connections being added to access control list
vol set to 22, 22
igain set to 0, 0
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 11892 requests (11628 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
aumix: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
after 131 requests (113 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
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Excerpt from /var/log/xdm.log:
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Sat Mar 5 17:11:37 2011 xdm info (pid 2545): sourcing /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
Sat Mar 5 17:12:04 2011 xdm info (pid 2545): sourcing /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
Sat Mar 5 17:12:04 2011 xdm info (pid 2564): executing session
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
Sat Mar 5 17:13:49 2011 xdm info (pid 2545): sourcing /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset
Sat Mar 5 17:13:49 2011 xdm info (pid 1823): Starting X server on :0
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
[config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
:31:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:32:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:33:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:34:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:35:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:36:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:37:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
:38:2: error: invalid preprocessing directive #xlogin
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Excerpt from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
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(II) evaluating device (Keyboard)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse)
(**) Keyboard: xkb_rules: "xorg"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Keyboard: xkb_model: "evdev"
(**) Keyboard: xkb_layout: "de"
(--) Mouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event6
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
(--) Mouse touchpad found
[config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))
(II) Keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 2 at 0x0080 (pgoffset 2048)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x0100 (pgoffset 4096)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 1 at 0x0200 (pgoffset 8192)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 3 at 0x0380 (pgoffset 14336)
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 4 at 0x
