I'm not convinced Felix's bug is the same as mine -- my problems were with gdm rather than xdm (which has always cooperated quite nicely, thank you ;-)), and have been better since 4.2.0. (I have seen some other gdm weirdness on this machine in later tests, but no server crashes or hangs.)
On a whim, I tried the option you suggested to see if it did anything about the current gdm lossage (not noticing when I logged out); unsurprisingly, it had no effect. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
