Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:17:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Elwood Blues <fernando@secret.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gnome2: gnome-session crashes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0206121614040.12677-100000@epa.secret.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0206100957380.46182-100000@epa.secret.org>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Elwood Blues wrote:
> 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,
Resolved the above issues with the FontPaths, as far as I can tell, the
scalable fonts are installed and usable. gnome-session still crashes with
the same errors as before. Any ideas?
-F
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