From owner-freebsd-gnome Mon Jun 10 7: 4: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from epa.secret.org (epa.secret.org [206.220.140.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BA737B40E for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fernando@localhost) by epa.secret.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA89778; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:03:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Elwood Blues To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Subject: Re: gnome2: gnome-session crashes In-Reply-To: <1023645893.52546.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 9 Jun 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 all > > > over the place. Make sure you have all the X fonts installed, and that > > > all the font types are loaded in your XF86Config file. > > > > The GNOME Session Manager (process 262) has crashed > > due to a fatal error (Segmentation fault). > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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 I would assume so because I rebuilt the world on Saturday: # ls -la /usr/lib/libc_r* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1474534 Jun 8 12:34 /usr/lib/libc_r.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Jun 8 12:34 /usr/lib/libc_r.so -> libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 683096 Jun 8 12:34 /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1599552 Jun 8 12:34 /usr/lib/libc_r_p.a Maybe this is a problem? # grep fonts XFree86.0.log (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX". (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings". (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings"). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2". (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2"). (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/sgi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/nucleus,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont, removing from list! Let me resolve that and see if it helps. Thanks for your time, -F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message