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gdm package

  1. Bug #393835
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 393835

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Srdan Dukic (srdan-dukic) wrote :

Hi, I can also confirm this issue. From the look of things this bug has been around for a while.

Discussion of bug on Ubuntu Forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1131190

FreeBSD Discussion of bug: http://fixunix.com/freebsd/296390-x11-gdm-default-ipv6-disables-ipv4-xdmcp.html

Suggested Workaround (from Dapper 6.06): http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/IndirectXdmIPv6Bug

Duplicates of this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/105938
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/58071

How can we get this fixed? Are the upstream developers even aware of this issue? In the second duplicate listed there appears to be a workaround involving DNS, but I haven't tried it out myself.