Re: sddm-greeter dumping core on Release after Dec 30

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 6:49 AM Michael Schuster  wrote:

Hi Michael,

currently running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p3 on an AMD- and renoir-based
> laptop, everything ZFS.
>
> my routine update of goes something like this:
> - create a new boot env based off the current one, mount on /mnt
> - pkg update on /mnt ("pkg -c /mnt update")
> - activate new BE, umount it and reboot.
>
> Since the end of December, I haven't been able to get a working desktop
> that way, sddm-greeter reproducibly dumps core on me in the newly created
> BE.
>
...

> How do I go about debugging greeter-core in /var/lib/sddm/ (meaningfully)?
> I so far got a backtrace sans symbols ... I know my way around gdb, lldb
> not so much, and both not on FreeBSD
>

If symbols are missing, then at the very least ssdm
needs to be locally compiled from The Ports & installed
without stripping the resulting files. That may possibly
include compiling (some|all) dependencies locally too.

See ...

Using the Ports Collection,
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using

Building Packages with Poudriere,
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-poudriere

... you may start the festivities by installing "git" (or "got",
never used myself) package.


- parv