Bug#579507: crashes during start

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Apr 28 14:51:19 UTC 2010


Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 à 16:30 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit :
> > FYI, you can work around it by
> > setting /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility to false
> > in /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults (but obviously we should fix this
> > instead).
> 
> That makes gdm3 start again, yes, but the panels won't come up, so the
> session is pretty unusable.

Which session? The one internal to gdm? Are there other error messages
in the logs in this case?

> > > Feel free to ping me for more information.
> > 
> > To go further, installing libatspi-dbg should give a more detailed
> > backtrace. Ideally if you managed to run the gnome-session process that
> > crashes in a gdb session you could obtain an even more detailed one.
> 
> Erm, I'm not very familiar with C/C++ debugging, so don't hit me -- but
> how exactly am I supposed to attach gdb to gnome-session if gnome
> restarts every one and a half seconds?

If you start gdm in a gdb process, it should be able to trap crashes
from the programs it is running.

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