From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 10 21:20:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568A716A403 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:20:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3E843D48 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:19:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.251] (vpn-client-251.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.251]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3ALKOb4020763; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:20:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Message-ID: <443ACC16.1080902@marcuscom.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:20:22 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" References: <20060410125851.13071.qmail@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060410125851.13071.qmail@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected config problem--how to fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:20:00 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > */Joe Marcus Clarke /* wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 12:58 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > im running Gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. i havent updated > anything in > > awhile and im not doing anything fancy. > > > > My panel suddenly got messed up--the icons faded away and got streaky. > > The screen i was on was usable but i couldnt move to another > desktop or > > launch anything from the top or bottom panel. > > > > So i ran gdm-restart and now i cant even log in, i get a message with > > "the configuration file contains an invalid command line for the > login dialog, > > so running the defulat command. Please fix your configuration". > But then when i > > log in it still doesnt work, "There was an error starting the > GNOME settings > > daemon...The last error message was: EOF from child process." and > i cant log > > in, i can only launch the Failsafe x-term. > > > > How do i fix this? My Gnome apps are uptodate and i havent changed > anything. > > Login to X, and run /usr/X11R6/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon from the > command line. What errors do you get? > > Just the unhelpful "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" if i run as myself > or as root, and i get a 970K coredump file. > > if theres any easy way i acan delete all the settings and start fresh im > happy to do this: i dont have fancy configuration settings and im willing > to lose them if it means im up and running again! But i dont want to > reinstall all of Gnome :-( You will need to rebuild gnomecontrolcenter2 with debugging symbols, then get a gdb backtrace of this core file. Somewhere, a NULL pointer is being dereferenced. Joe - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEOswWb2iPiv4Uz4cRArQbAJ42x6dLs63L43QlYTB+e+ppk5CrbACgi2/J nw9zOmJNrJmy5QbJXujF+1o= =5BfQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----