| Summary: |
xdm fails to start - undefined symbol: SessionPingFailed |
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xorg
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Reporter: |
Dag Bakke <dag> |
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App/xdm | Assignee: |
Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
FIXED
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| Severity: |
normal
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| Priority: |
high
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| Version: |
6.99.99.902 (7.0 RC2) | |
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| Hardware: |
x86 (IA32) | |
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| OS: |
Linux (All) | |
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i915 platform:
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| Bug Depends on: |
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| Bug Blocks: |
1690
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When trying to start xdm 0.99.3 as provided by gentoo, xdm fails with: X Window System Version 6.99.99.902 (7.0.0 RC 2) Release Date: 09 November 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.99.99.902 Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Current Operating System: Linux dagb-home 2.6.15-rc1 #1 Sat Nov 12 12:43:11 CET 2005 i686 Build Date: 11 November 2005 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: Sat Nov 12 13:13:50 2005 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/CID/, removing from list! xdm error (pid 10617): /usr/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so: undefined symbol: SessionPingFailed while loading /usr/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so I am building xdm with none of the options offered by gentoo [ebuild R ] x11-apps/xdm-0.99.3 -ipv6 -pam -xprint 0 kB An old freebsd post gives an indication on how to work around this: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=7159+0+archive/1999/freebsd-alpha/19990808.freebsd-alpha Comments in spyderous blog confirms the workaround above: http://www.livejournal.com/users/spyderous/61143.html