Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:37:40 -0700 From: George <jirka@5z.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: George <jirka@5z.com>, ezislis <kesor@mail.ru>, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM 2.4.0.x & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020712163740.GA11052@monique.linux.bogus> In-Reply-To: <1026429227.8748.67.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> References: <20020711010419.H37195-100000@finone.in.kesor.net> <1026353333.8748.40.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020711163859.GC16083@monique.linux.bogus> <1026429227.8748.67.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:13:47PM -0700, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> # gdm --nodaemon ttyv8
>
> Lo and behold, it worked! It still hangs in the same place when run
> from /etc/ttys, and when run from the console still generates the NULL
> encoding error messages, but I was able to successfully login.
>
> This would seem to indicate that some one of the stdio file descriptors
> is causing a problem, since that is the main difference between running
> in /etc/ttys and running from /dev/ttyv0 root login (I think?)
Ahh, this may be a bit of an insight. So perhaps gdm doesn't handle well the
case where stdin/out is missing (I suppose that may be the case when run from
/etc/ttys) and when it is not daemonizing. I think I know where the problem
lies. I think there may be many errors when the 0,1,2 descriptors are not
open sicne that's not a well tested case. I'll be committing a fix that
ensures that 0,1 and 2 exist on execution.
Not sure if this is the only problem as kesor had a problem no matter where
he ran gdm from.
George
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George <jirka@5z.com>
A physical understanding is a completely unmathematical, imprecise, and
inexact thing, but absolutely necessary for a physicist.
-- Richard P. Feynman
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