From owner-freebsd-gnome Sun Jun 9 11: 5:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CDD37B409 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 11:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g59I3rB4056973; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 14:03:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: gnome2: gnome-session crashes From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Elwood Blues Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-koybcCVol7+699ZalAIW" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 09 Jun 2002 14:04:47 -0400 Message-Id: <1023645893.52546.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-koybcCVol7+699ZalAIW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 12:58, Elwood Blues wrote: > On 8 Jun 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 12:24, Elwood Blues wrote: > > > Not a single problem when I installed the gnome2 metaport on > > > FreeBSD-4.6-RC built on May 18th, but whenever I try to start > > > gnome-session, I get the following from bug-buddy: > > > > > > Backtrace was generated from '/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session' > > > > Is it actually crashing? What signal is gnome-session exiting on? > > sobomax found that without scalable fonts installed, GNOME 2 crashed al= l > > over the place. Make sure you have all the X fonts installed, and that > > all the font types are loaded in your XF86Config file. >=20 > The GNOME Session Manager (process 262) has crashed > due to a fatal error (Segmentation fault). >=20 > XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 port is installed, FontPath statements > are in place in /etc/X11/XF86Config. Will check the logs to make > sure there were no errors initializing the font paths. >=20 > > > Also tried running gdm from /etc/ttys, but the interface hangs > > > after any user input. Any ideas why this might be happening? > > > > This seems to be a popular complaint. I never encountered it since I > > always start gdm from an rc script from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. A new > > GNOME 2 snapshot is out, and I will be working on the update. Perhaps > > the new gdm2 will alleviate this problem. > > > > Joe >=20 > This is with the gdm2-2.3.90.3 port. All I did was install the > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 metaport. Starting gdm2 from an rc script > doesnt work either, all I get is the screen you would get if you > started X without a window manager. When you rebuild world, do you also rebuild libc_r? Joe >=20 > -F >=20 >=20 --=-koybcCVol7+699ZalAIW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9A5i/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAqf4AJ9Yo0KC5ILeOHruI2C36gmDpDaxXQCffSRD t66eRnvqncYxt2RbXAQXCLw= =C2jP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-koybcCVol7+699ZalAIW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message