Re: GDM: (F17, all updates) When I try to log in, login fails and I get switched to a different VT

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On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 07:42 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 07:30 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: 
> > > I can't find anything in /var/log/messages, dmesg output,
> > > ~/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log to explain this.
> > > I have auto-login configured, and if I reboot my machine, I _am_
> > > logged in successfully. It's only when I log out and log back in
> > > again that the login fails.
> > It seems Xserver is crashing. After the crash have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and `dmesg` output.
> The X server is NOT crashing.
> 
> As I said, "I can't find anything in /var/log/messages, dmesg output,
> ~/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log to explain this."
> 
> The X server does not exit and restart when the login fails. It's the
> same instance of the X server, the same /var/log/Xorg.0.log file,
> afterwards.

I really doubt this is true.  gdm doesn't reuse X servers, you get one
per session.  Have you verified that Xorg has the same PID before and
after trying to log in?

- ajax

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