Bug#465729: KDM doesn'd display login screen when splashy is enabled

Michal Sojka

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Feb 14, 2008, 6:20:22 AM2/14/08

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Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.8-1
Severity: important

After booting with splashy enabled, kdm do not show its login
screen. I have a nvidia card with proprietary drivers. kdm process is
running but not kdm_greet. No keyboard shortcuts (Alt-Fx, Esc, F2) are
working. If I log in from another machine using SSH and execute
/etc/init.d/kdm restart, the login screen appears.

Here are some logs from my system:

/var/log/kdm.log after boot:

********************************************************************************
Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages
(i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the
daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which
file(s) it is logged. PAM logs messages related to authentication to authpriv.*.
********************************************************************************

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1)
Current Operating System: Linux resox 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 6 15:20:27 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 01 February 2008 03:49:13AM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 14 11:41:38 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

After some time or if "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" is executed, the following lines apears in kdm log:

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Interrupted system call

and in case of timeout this appears in syslog:

Feb 14 11:24:21 resox kdm: :0[4171]: Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting
Feb 14 11:24:21 resox kdm: :0[4171]: Cannot connect to :0, giving up
Feb 14 11:24:21 resox kdm[4160]: Display :0 cannot be opened

When kdm is started manualy by "/etc/init.d/kdm start" the kdm log looks like:

********************************************************************************
Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages
(i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the
daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which
file(s) it is logged. PAM logs messages related to authentication to authpriv.*.
********************************************************************************

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1)
Current Operating System: Linux resox 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 6 15:20:27 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 01 February 2008 03:49:13AM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Feb 14 11:37:33 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii initramfs-tools 0.91d tools for generating an initramfs
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdirectfb-1.0-0 1.0.1-6 direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libmagic1 4.23-1 File type determination library us
ii libsplashy1 0.3.8-1 Library to draw splash screen on b
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

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Luis Mondesi

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Feb 26, 2008, 10:10:10 PM2/26/08

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Can you change the first line of /etc/init.d/kdm and send us the output?

The line should read:

!#/bin/sh -x

We need the output of:

/etc/init.d/kdm stop
/etc/init.d/kdm start

Please note that a new version of Splashy was released and
/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh included here will address this issue. You
can get the latest version of this script from our Git repository
directly:

http://git.debian.org/?p=splashy/splashy.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/lsb-base-logging.sh;hb=HEAD

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Michal Sojka <soj...@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.8-1
> Severity: important
>
> After booting with splashy enabled, kdm do not show its login
> screen. I have a nvidia card with proprietary drivers. kdm process is
> running but not kdm_greet. No keyboard shortcuts (Alt-Fx, Esc, F2) are
> working. If I log in from another machine using SSH and execute
> /etc/init.d/kdm restart, the login screen appears.
>

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Michal Sojka

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Feb 29, 2008, 6:00:24 PM2/29/08

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On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 04:04:32 Luis Mondesi wrote:
> Can you change the first line of /etc/init.d/kdm and send us the output?
>
> The line should read:
> !#/bin/sh -x

The output is in attachment.

>
> Please note that a new version of Splashy was released and
> /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh included here will address this issue. You
> can get the latest version of this script from our Git repository
> directly:
>
> http://git.debian.org/?p=splashy/splashy.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/lsb-bas
>e-logging.sh;hb=HEAD

I've tried this script, but KDM didn't start as before. Shall I try to use the
whole splashy from this repo?

Michal

kdm-start.log

kdm-stop.log

Luis Mondesi

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Mar 1, 2008, 9:30:15 AM3/1/08

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ok, those two logs look perfect. Not a single Splashy related string
or executing in them.

can you try to edit /etc/default/splashy and change CHVT_TTY to 7 ?
This will tell Splashy that when it's finished booting, it should chvt
to tty7 where X should be. Splashy uses tty8 and stays in tty8 unless
you edit /etc/default/splashy or your display-manager switches to tty7
(X does this I think).

2008/2/29 Michal Sojka <soj...@fel.cvut.cz>:

> On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 04:04:32 Luis Mondesi wrote:
> > Can you change the first line of /etc/init.d/kdm and send us the output?
> >
> > The line should read:
> > !#/bin/sh -x
>
> The output is in attachment.
>

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Michal Sojka

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Mar 3, 2008, 3:50:12 AM3/3/08

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On Saturday 01 of March 2008 15:22:22 you wrote:
> ok, those two logs look perfect. Not a single Splashy related string
> or executing in them.
>
> can you try to edit /etc/default/splashy and change CHVT_TTY to 7 ?

Great, this helped. Now, kdm starts properly.

Thanks Michal

Marc Haber

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Jun 21, 2008, 12:00:25 PM6/21/08

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On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:22:22AM -0500, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> ok, those two logs look perfect. Not a single Splashy related string
> or executing in them.
>
> can you try to edit /etc/default/splashy and change CHVT_TTY to 7 ?

On my system with splashy 0.3.10-2, it works even with CHVT_TTY=auto.

Since the original submitter said that kdm starts properly on his
system as well, I guess that this can be closed.

Greetings
Marc