Re: [gdm-list] Gdm awaiting for network

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Riccardo:

> > Does the desktop file associated with the session you are using have an
> > Entry/X-Gdm-XserverArgs value in it?
> $ ls
> -la /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/*.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop
> ls: cannot access /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop: No such file or directory
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.7K Jul 17
> 21:14 /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/default.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Jul 17
> 21:14 /usr/share/xsessions/ssh.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Jun 30
> 23:39 /usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop
>
> $ grep -i
> X-Gdm-XserverArgs /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/*.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop
> grep: /etc/dm/Sessions/*.desktop: No such file or directory

That's probably not the problem then.

> > Do you see the delay with all sessions, or only this particular session?
>
> I've installed fluxbox just to have a different session to check, and
> yes there is the same delay also with fluxbox.

Thanks for checking.

> > In the auth logic, it does call functions like gethostname(), so
> > if you don't have /etc/hosts set up properly, it might be waiting
> > trying to figure out your hostname over the network.
>
> I think /etc/hosts is fine, it just lists the loopback address and the
> hosts of my home lan.

The problem might be something relating to gethostname().  If you write
a standalone program which makes similar calls as in the GDM code,
does it also hang?

> > Could you try running pstack on the gdm-binary processs when it is
> > hanging.  This might help point out more specifically where the
> > code is hanging, whether in the auth code or in the X-Gdm-XserverArgs
> > code.
>
> When gdm was "waiting" I run:

[...]

> I've never used pstack, and I hope these data could make sense to you,
> because it's greek to me :-)

You may need to recompile GDM with debug (-g) to get it to tell you
the function names.  The info you provided, as you notice, isn't so
useful.

Brian