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Bug 85363 - gdmconfig crash when changing graphical theme
gdmconfig crash when changing graphical theme
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 86264
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.4.0.x
Other Linux
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
Trevor Curtis
: 86102 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-15 12:12 UTC by lenhof
Modified: 2002-06-30 19:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0



Description lenhof 2002-06-15 12:12:16 UTC
- Launch gdmconfig
- Change in "general" for local greeter from "standard greeter" to
"graphical greeter"
- Go to "Graphical Greeter" choose "Happy GNOME"
- GDM kills itself
Comment 1 Heath Harrelson 2002-06-20 16:52:36 UTC
I'm unable to replicate this crash with the latest snapshot I have
installed (gdm2-2.4.0.0.0.200206150522-0.snap.ximian.1), which is from
Saturday.  Although the theme isn't set to happygnome, GDM doesn't crash.

Can you possibly update and try this again to see if it's been fixed
for you?
Comment 2 lenhof 2002-06-22 10:35:05 UTC
Sorry the crash is for gdmconfig not gdm....but I loose some of my
windows on my desktop with this bug.

For the compilation of gdm I've used option for RedHat Linux computer as 
written in the README file.

If I launch it from a terminal instead of the menu I've got this...

[root@mylinux root]# gdmconfig 
Fin de la connexion (raccroché)
[root@mylinux root]# 

I don't know if this could be useful...

[root@mylinux root]# strace gdmconfig

<snip>

ioctl(3, 0x541b, [32])                  = 0
read(3, "\6\0*\vs\204d\2276\0\0\0\220\0\340\1\0\0\0\0@\0\350\0%"...,
32) = 32
gettimeofday({1024742163, 572030}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0])                   = 0
gettimeofday({1024742163, 572240}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=12,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 7, 0) = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1024742163
stat64("/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2496,
...}) = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1024742163
time(NULL)                              = 1024742163
stat64("/etc/X11/gdm", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 15
fstat64(15, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x40028000
write(15, "\n[daemon]\nAutomaticLoginEnable=f"..., 2499) = 2499
close(15)                               = 0
munmap(0x40028000, 4096)                = 0
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 15
connect(15, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/.gdm_socket"}, 110) = 0
send(15, "VERSION\n", 8, 0x4000)        = 8
read(15, "G", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "D", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "M", 1)                        = 1
read(15, " ", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "2", 1)                        = 1
read(15, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "4", 1)                        = 1
read(15, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "0", 1)                        = 1
read(15, ".", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "0", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "\n", 1)                       = 1
send(15, "GREETERPIDS\n", 12, 0x4000)   = 12
read(15, "O", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "K", 1)                        = 1
read(15, " ", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "0", 1)                        = 1
read(15, "\n", 1)                       = 1
send(15, "CLOSE\n", 6, 0x4000)          = 6
close(15)                               = 0
kill(0, SIGHUP <unfinished ...>
[root@mylinux root]# 

Comment 3 Luis Villa 2002-06-24 17:35:33 UTC
*** Bug 86102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2002-06-24 17:38:33 UTC
Basically I think gdmconfig is restarting gdm and hence the session
when changing themes. Not sure, though.
Comment 5 jensflorian 2002-06-29 16:18:37 UTC
I have exact the same problem. This makes gdmconfig unuseable because
the applied changes don't take effect.
Comment 6 jensflorian 2002-06-29 16:23:56 UTC
Could that related to this bug?
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86264
Comment 7 Heath Harrelson 2002-06-29 22:28:33 UTC
Yup, this should be the same bug.  Thanks for tracking this down.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85264 ***
Comment 8 lenhof 2002-06-30 17:21:51 UTC
In the Heath Harrelson comments this should be 86264 instead of 85264



Comment 9 Heath Harrelson 2002-06-30 19:28:31 UTC
Yeah, slip of the keyboard.  My fault.  Thanks for noticing.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86264 ***