From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 15:16:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CC016A4BF; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt22.cluster1.charter.net (remt22.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831B043FF7; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt22.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 151212235; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:16:12 -0400 Received: from gforce.johnson.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h87MGB18023560; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:16:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.johnson.home) Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h87MGBb8023559; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:16:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:16:10 -0500 To: Kees Jan Koster Message-ID: <20030907221610.GA23410@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Kees Jan Koster , FreeBSD Questions List , jirka@5z.com, gnome@freebsd.org References: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F5BA09C.CAF60856@kjkoster.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD Questions List cc: jirka@5z.com Subject: Re: GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:16:14 -0000 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