From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 18:58:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F14616A41B for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:58:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FCB13C45E for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:58:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l87Iw2Rc085047; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l87Iw2k8085046; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:58:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070907185800.GB84875@thought.org> References: <20070907075623.GA80230@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070907075623.GA80230@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Gnome at FreeBSD List Subject: Re: crash instantly after successful login X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:58:04 -0000 On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:56:23AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, > > late this thursday night on newtao, when i tried logging in--after a > crash and reboot, totally unexpected--i logged in as "kline", a gnome app > tried to collect data, then the OS crashed. after three times i > successfully logged in a root, under gnome, and poked around hald seems to > have been missing. [???] then i found this at the end of > /var/log/messages: > > Sep 6 11:45:24 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp3 > Sep 6 11:57:15 tao2 su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1 > Sep 6 23:24:22 tao2 kernel: pid 671 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > Sep 6 23:24:23 tao2 gdm[657]: Error reinitilizing server > Sep 6 23:57:30 tao2 shutdown: reboot by root: > Sep 6 23:57:33 tao2 syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > Sep 6 23:59:29 tao2 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel > > > if anybody has seeen this before or otherwise knows what is going on, > please let me know. > > i did pkg_delete x11-fonts/webfont, fwiw. > After poking around into the ~/gnome2/session file, I discovered why my login wouldn't complete. I had 14 or 15 things in my saved session. It may have been having openoffice that broke Gnome. I edited out the last three session entries and after only a couple hours trying, I could login as "kline" successfully. (Logging in as root has always worked. Just FWIW. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org