GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 70401
gnome-session crashes on startup
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I installed gnome 2 alpha 2 from garnome. after compilation, i executed the following commands: jim@itzakadoozie:~$ PATH=~/garnome/bin:$PATH jim@itzakadoozie:~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH jim@itzakadoozie:~$ GDK_USE_XFT=1 jim@itzakadoozie:~$ export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT jim@itzakadoozie:~$ ~/garnome/bin/gnome-session gnome-session responded with: SESSION_MANAGER=local/itzakadoozie:/tmp/.ICE-unix/30826 and popped up a dialog with this text: The GNOME Session Manager (process 30826) has crashed due to a fatal error (Segmentation fault). When you close this dialog, all applications will close and your session will exit. Please save all your files before closing this dialog. A gdb traceback of this crash: jim@itzakadoozie:~$ gdb ~/garnome/bin/gnome-session GNU gdb 5.1 Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) run Starting program: /home/jim/garnome/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)...[New Thread 1024 (LWP 30839)] (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)... SESSION_MANAGER=local/itzakadoozie:/tmp/.ICE-unix/30839 (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)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
+ Trace 17212
Thread 1024 (LWP 30839)
I've been pointed to checking my XftConfig file. As far as I can tell, there are no problems with it. Other gnome2 applications work well enough (i've tested several games).
Finding and removing "XftCache" files fixed the problem. This is still a major bug; it should not crash like this. Also, there is no documentation, anywhere, on XftConfig and XftCache, after extensive google searching. Not a Gnome problem, obviously, but annoying.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70351 ***