gdm 2.16.1 graphical greeter / configuration-screen crash (CURRENT)

[Jacek Lukas Wotka]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 08:49 +0200, Jacek Lukas Wotka wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i get gdm/xserver crashes when trying to enter the configuration-screen 
>> in gdm. old configs with enabled graphical greeter produce 
>> xserverrestarts with standard greeter enabled.
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Oct  2 15:41:46 CEST 2006
>>
>> any ideas or any other information needed for that?
> 
> Others have reported this problem as well.  I recommend building gdm
> with debugging symbols, then setting the following two sysctls:
> 
> kern.coredump
> kern.sugid_coredump
> 
> And get a full backtrace from the crash.
> 
> Joe
> 

ok, can you explain this in detail? (especially the "get a full 
backtrace", not the previous stuff)