problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[Simon Santoro]

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kloschi at subsignal dot org wrote:
| After updating alot of stuff today, its no longer possible
| to login to X.
| All users get "session was shorter than 10 secs ..", with an
| .xsession-errors:
| /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your Session with wtmp and utmp
| /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Running: /usr/bin/x11/sessreg -a -w
| /var/log/wtmp \
| -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.XServers" -h "" -l ":0" "kloschi"
| /etc/gdm/XSession: beginning session setup ...
| SESSION_MANAGER=local/ira:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4669
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|
| and nothing more.
| I have no clue what causes this or how to debug, bedause no log says
| anything.
| Any Ideas?
| I'd need that machine up and running asap : /

I had the same problem and I looked at synaptic's history to downgrade
the upgraded packages. BTW, is there a simple way to rollback an apg-get
upgrade?
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