GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 84117
gnome-session segfaults immediatley on freebsd
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnome-session Severity: normal Version: 1.5.19 Synopsis: gnome-session segfaults immediatley on freebsd Bugzilla-Product: gnome-session Bugzilla-Component: gnome-session BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (1.117.1) Description: Description of Problem: I have installed gnome 2 in FreeBSD 4.5 from the gnome2 metaport (x11/gnome2). When I try and run gnome-session, it immediatley segfaults. Other programs such as nautilus and the gnome-panel run ok. I have tried using different users, and have tried removing all the ~/.gnome* folders, but gnome-session still segfaults. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: How often does this happen? Additional Information: Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session' (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...0x289977fc in _thread_sys_poll () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4
+ Trace 23289
Thread 1 (process 9381, thread 1)
#3 0x0 in ?? () No symbol table info available. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-06-04 10:12 ------- The original reporter (chrisholl@btinternet.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-session-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Marking this critical but it isn't high right now. We need a more rigorous deferral system so that I can push this more formally. :/ As it is, that stack trace is probably pretty useless, unfortunately, Chris, so unless someone actually on BSD can track it down and fix it, it is unlikely to get fixed by the core gnome folks. [Unless Jacob can duplicate it on his 'BSD' box ;)
i wouldn't be surprised if this is due to not having your fonts set up correctly. i don't know any ways to check this, though.
*** Bug 84437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 85057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 85731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
cwenham, sven, eldooran, chrisholl: you guys are going to need to rebuild with useful symbols and (most likely) get someone knowledgeable from the FreeBSD community to help track this down, as this trace is not useful and none of the gnome-session people are BSD users. :/ Sorry about that- I'd certainly push to get a patch in ASAP, if someone comes up with one.
this is due to some problems in the freebsd X4.1 and X4.2 ports at some point. removing all your system font dirs and reinstalling the latest x fonts port has been reported to fix this problem.
OK, closing then. Thanks for tracking it down.
*** Bug 88725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I apologize for the spam, but in talking to David Kennedy on #bugs we decided that it might be useful for me to add a comment to a lot of bugs that have nearly identical stack traces that aren't very useful. (It took me a while because I gave up on several bugzilla queries that simply hung). Anyway, I may have caught some bugs with this query that aren't relevant, so I apologize again if this bug is one of those. If not: The following comment from 100709 may be relevant: "It turns out this was an accidental FreeBSD ABI change during the import of gcc-3.2.1. div(), a structure returning function, was the culprit."