problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, kloschi at subsignal dot org wrote:
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>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 : /
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Downgrade the package libesd to the previous one or wait until a new
package is uploaded.  This is what Jeff Waugh said in the devel list.

I went to the directory where all the packages are cached and then run

sudo dpkg -i libesdxxxxxxxxxx

You need the one that doesn't have ubuntu1 in its name

Hope it helps,
Santiago