Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 18:05:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kees Jan Koster <kjkoster@kjkoster.org> Cc: jirka@5z.com Subject: Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030907180533.O67679@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org> References: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org>
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, 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. This is a known issue, and a bug has been filed in GNOME Bugzilla. Joe > > 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? > > Yours, > Kees Jan > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Kees Jan Koster e-mail: kjkoster "at" kjkoster.org > www: http://www.kjkoster.org/ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Life is uncertain; eat dessert first. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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