GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Kees Jan Koster wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of
> it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it on.
> One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a hardware
> issue.
>
> My OS is FreeBSD-stable, cvsupped as of this week. I use portupgrade to
> keep my ports up to date.

This is a known issue, and a bug has been filed in GNOME Bugzilla.

Joe

>
> To reproduce:
>
>  * install recent (this week) version of FreeBSD's gdm2 port.
>  * start it using the shell script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
>  * choose the configure option
>  * enter root password
>  * pick graphical mode
>  * *churn, churn* *POW* signal 6
>
> warning: GDM greeter will not restart at all after following the above
> procedure. I removed the port and reinstalled it to fix the problem.
>
> Plain mode (default) works fine, so that is what I use now.
>
> Anyone else see this problem? How do I fix this?
>
>  Yours,
>    Kees Jan
>
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