Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 03:52:05 GMT From: Jason Bacon <jwbacon@tds.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/182561: xfce4 fails to start from xdm Message-ID: <201310020352.r923q5fj032220@oldred.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201310020400.r92400he038743@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 182561
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: xfce4 fails to start from xdm
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 02 04:00:00 UTC 2013
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jason Bacon
>Release: 9.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
Acadix Consulting, LLC
>Environment:
FreeBSD oyster.jbacon.dyndns.org 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013 root@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
When using xdm-1.1.11 for login with xfce-4.10_5, the first session starts successfully, but sessions after that fail to start and leave the following message in .xsession-errors:
XDM authorization key matches an existing client!xfce4-session: Cannot open display: .
This problem has popped up in recent and past versions of XFCE. I found a workaround/solution here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486606
It involves adding the following to /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
This fix solved the issue on both installations.
Removing the user's .Xauthority file prior to login also works around it in some cases. This worked consistently on my laptop, but not on a VirtualBox guest with nearly identical configuration.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install and enable xdm-1.1.11 and xfce 4.10_5. ( sysutils/desktop-installer can assist with this. )
Log in via xdm, log out, and attempt to log in again.
>Fix:
Add the following to /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
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