Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:16:10 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Kees Jan Koster <kjkoster@kjkoster.org> Cc: jirka@5z.com Subject: Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030907221610.GA23410@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org> References: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org>
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:18:20PM +0200, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear All, > > I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of > it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it > on. One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a > hardware issue. > > My OS is FreeBSD-stable, cvsupped as of this week. I use portupgrade > to keep my ports up to date. > > To reproduce: > > * install recent (this week) version of FreeBSD's gdm2 port. > * start it using the shell script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d > * choose the configure option > * enter root password > * pick graphical mode > * *churn, churn* *POW* signal 6 > > warning: GDM greeter will not restart at all after following the above > procedure. I removed the port and reinstalled it to fix the problem. > > Plain mode (default) works fine, so that is what I use now. > > Anyone else see this problem? How do I fix this? Yes, I see this same behavior. It started after a recent update but I was not paying close enough attention to know which one. I just switched to the standard greeter (gdmlogin) as I have had too many other things to worry about as of late. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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