GDM still broken

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

  Ok, I can see gdmgreeter now.  But when I enter a name and password, instead
of starting an X session for me, gdm just restarts.  This happens even if I
enter an incorrect password (in which case I assume I should see a message
about "incorrect password")

  Another oddity is that my config file doesn't seem to be being parsed; I
altered the welcome message but the greeter still says "Welcome to Gnome".
(for that matter, shouldn't "Welcome to %h" expand to "Welcome to palantir"
since the hostname is palantir?)  If it weren't for this I'd try to fiddle
with the configuration to get gdm working.

  My syslog after a gdm session (start it, try to log in, kill it) shows:

Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_main: Here we go...
Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_server_start: :0
Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Securing :0
Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15394]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X -auth /usr/local/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth :0'
Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting display :0!
Jan 12 11:09:27 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_display_manage: Managing :0
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_display_manage: Forked slave: 15397...
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15392]: Main loop
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process for :0
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 15402
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdmgreeter[15402]: Using '/etc/X11/Xsession' as default session
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdmgreeter[15402]: Logo not found. No image will be displayed!
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdmgreeter[15402]: gdm_greeter: Display: :0 - Auth: /usr/local/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth
Jan 12 11:09:29 palantir gdmgreeter[15402]: gdm_greeter: Path: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/root/bin/i386-linux:/root/bin:/usr/local/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:. - Uid: 1002 - Gid: 1002
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_term_handler: Got TERM/INT. Going down!Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15392]: gdm_display_unmanage: Stopping :0
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_term_handler: :0 got TERM signal
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_term_handler: Whacking greeter
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_term_handler: Whacking client connections
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_windows_kill: Killing windows on :0
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_windows_kill: Killing child 0x1400001
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_windows_kill: Killing child 0x1000004
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_windows_kill: Killing child 0x1000009
Jan 12 11:09:37 palantir gdm[15397]: gdm_slave_windows_kill_error_handler: Blam

  Nothing useful is output to :0.log.

  Daniel

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