Subject: slim: authentication failure when installed on raw Xorg
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:24:48 +0000
Package: slim
Version: 1.3.1-8
Severity: important
I am using slim on a fresh Debian Squeeze install. The install in question is
a Debian Live CD image created with the "standard-x11" package list and running
in persistent mode (this should make it equivalent to a standard Squeeze
install with just Xorg, no DE / WM installed). I installed xfce4 package and
then installed the slim package.
I then do sudo init 1 followed by sudo init 5 to restart the X server (or,
alternatively, restart the computer). Slim comes up and I am able to login
normally. The first program I open runs. Every program after that fails with
an MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. "xhosts +" reports "cannot open display :0.0".
To avoid this and get a working X configuration, I disabled slim by running
"sudo insserv -r slim." X runs fine after that without a display manager.
Have not tried other display managers so am not sure if this error occurs in
them as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'squeeze-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages slim depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
Versions of packages slim recommends:
ii xterm 261-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages slim suggests:
pn scrot <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/slim.conf changed:
default_path /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
default_xserver /usr/bin/X11/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp
halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue.net; exec /bin/login"
xauth_path /usr/bin/X11/xauth
authfile /var/run/slim.auth
login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session
sessions default,startxfce4,openbox,ion3,icewm,wmaker,blackbox,awesome
screenshot_cmd scrot /root/slim.png
welcome_msg Welcome to %host
shutdown_msg The system is halting...
reboot_msg The system is rebooting...
default_user user
auto_login yes
current_theme debian-spacefun
lockfile /var/run/slim.lock
logfile /var/log/slim.log
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: slim
Acknowledgement sent
to Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>.
(Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:27:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: Bug#613024: slim: authentication failure when installed on raw Xorg
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:24:15 +0900
Hi,
Thanks for your report!
2011/2/13 Shankar <[email protected]>:
> Package: slim
> Version: 1.3.1-8
> Severity: important
>
> I am using slim on a fresh Debian Squeeze install. The install in question is
> a Debian Live CD image created with the "standard-x11" package list and running
> in persistent mode (this should make it equivalent to a standard Squeeze
> install with just Xorg, no DE / WM installed). I installed xfce4 package and
> then installed the slim package.
>
> I then do sudo init 1 followed by sudo init 5 to restart the X server (or,
> alternatively, restart the computer). Slim comes up and I am able to login
> normally. The first program I open runs. Every program after that fails with
> an MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. "xhosts +" reports "cannot open display :0.0".
>
> To avoid this and get a working X configuration, I disabled slim by running
> "sudo insserv -r slim." X runs fine after that without a display manager.
>
> Have not tried other display managers so am not sure if this error occurs in
> them as well.
>
Is xauth packagr installed in your environment? Please check this.
Because this work even if this package does not install it, I do not
set it in Depends.
But I will set in Recommends.
Best regards,
Nobuhiro
--
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org}
GPG ID: 40AD1FA6
Acknowledgement sent
to Shankar Gopalakrishnan <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>.
(Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:12:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Sorry to have take so long to reply - I did not have access to my system for
some time.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your report!
>
>
No, I should be the one thanking you for all the work :)
Is xauth packagr installed in your environment? Please check this.
>
> Because this work even if this package does not install it, I do not
> set it in Depends.
> But I will set in Recommends.
>
>
xauth is indeed installed, so that isn't the problem. Any idea what else
might be going on? Perhaps this is not a slim bug at all, but something
wrong with the way live-helper is configuring the Live system.
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