GDM2 no longer works with -current
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu May 8 08:16:41 PDT 2003
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 08:31, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:40:05PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 22:05, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:07:54PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just installed gdm-2.4.1.4 on my -CURRENT machine,
> > > > and it works fine. I had to merge in some of the new
> > > > gdm.conf settings, but so far, I haven't seen any lockups
> > > > or crashes. If you're experiencing problems, make sure
> > > > you're starting gdm from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh,
> > > > and try copying /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf to
> > > > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf.
> > >
> > > I always start it from /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh and I already had
> > > merged in changes from factory-gdm.conf. I went ahead and copied it
> > > too just to be sure. Still no joy.
> > >
> > > Joe, is you -CURRENT a clean install? Mine has been through hell
> > > the last week or so because of the ffs:free bug and I am wondering
> > > if my system has gremlins lying around.
> >
> > Mine has been -CURRENT for over a year now. It's been through hell, a
> > bad loader, _and_ blkfree. I've run so many single user fsck's I've
> > lost count. I've also had some bad FS corruption which made me zarch
> > my marcus account, and let things get recreated. It couldn't hurt to
> > do a portupgrade -Rf gdm2 to see if that helps.
>
> No, it did not help. I still can not get gdm-2.4.1.4 to launch. As a
> note, the previous version was working. I guess I will have to revert
> back to the older version.
I tried it this time with no malloc.conf, and a clean gdm.conf, and it
still works. Can you get a stacktrace with symbols from the dying gdm?
Joe
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