Can't login via GDM anyomre: Re: Fedora 16 updates-testing report

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 05:21:56PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 19:11 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen writes:
> > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:12 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > > > > Beware the gigantic gnome 3.1.92 update.  Something in this
> > > > > transaction broke the ability for me to log in at all via GDM.  You
> > > > > type your password, and hit enter, nothing happens.  Click Sign In
> > > > > button, nothing happens.
> > > > 
> > > > You are likely hitting a race in the a11y key event handling at session
> > > > end (the session being the login screen here). I've been seeing that
> > > > myself with .92. We're working on it.
> > > 
> > > This should be fixed in at-spi2-atk-2.1.92-2.fc16. 
> > 
> > 
> > I now have at-spi2-atk-2.1.92-2 (from Koji), but no joy--sorry to say.
> > 
> 
> I need some information on what is hanging where, then. On my system, -2
> 100% fixed a very reproducible hang after hitting Enter in the password
> entry. 
> 
> You may be seeing something else that I cannot reproduce.

How can we help track this down?  Is the problem happening before or
after gnome-session is launched?  Would it help to trace
/etc/gdm/Xsession?