gnome 2.9 - metacity crashed on startup many times

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
| Hi
|
| This happens every time on usual login via gdm:
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| Feb 22 23:22:01 vbook kernel: pid 918 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:05 vbook kernel: pid 942 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:14 vbook kernel: pid 957 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:21 vbook kernel: pid 984 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:23 vbook kernel: pid 992 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:26 vbook kernel: pid 994 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:28 vbook kernel: pid 996 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:29 vbook kernel: pid 998 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:30 vbook kernel: pid 1000 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:31 vbook kernel: pid 1003 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| Feb 22 23:22:31 vbook kernel: pid 1008 (metacity), uid 207: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
| (
| And finally session starts without window manager.
| Then, if I start metacity from xterm it works ok.
|
| I've get such behavior after upgrade to marcus repo.
|
| It is same with previous and the latest version of metacity:
| Last tried version is:
| metacity-2.9.21     A window manager for the adult in you
|
| Any suggestions ?
|
| gdb output below:
| % gdb metacity metacity.core
| GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
| ... skip copyright and license ...
| Core was generated by `metacity'.
| Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
| ... skip lots of libraries ...
| Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
| #0  0x0809558f in meta_workspace_add_window ()
| (gdb) bt
| #0  0x0809558f in meta_workspace_add_window ()
| #1  0x08092ec5 in meta_window_new_with_attrs ()
| #2  0x08073114 in meta_screen_manage_all_windows ()
| #3  0x08062776 in meta_display_open ()
| #4  0x0806d1bc in main ()
| (gdb)
|
| no global libmap mappings,
| all related libraries built from marcus repository,
| recent FreeBSD 6-CURRENT
|
| Oh, I guess I've found the reason -
| OpenSSH-askpass-1.2.2.2001.02.24 utility kills metacity many times
| (it is started in my session by default).
|
| Starting /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass kills metacity every time.
| Looks like but in metacity.

Yep, confirmed.  I've created a patch, but I'm not sure it is a good
fix.  I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168207 for this
issue.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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