gnome 2.9 - metacity crashed on startup many times

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В вт, 22/02/2005 в 18:39 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:

>| 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.

I've check the latest patch from bug - it is ok, thank you.
Patched metacity does not crash any more.

>Joe

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Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru