Bug#579507: crashes during start

[Jan Hauke Rahm]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:51:19PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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?

Didn't find anything. Interestingly it now works. Maybe it kicked
something else off. I even had to kill gnome-panel once when it used
100% of one of my CPU cores.

Anyways, with your workaround gnome starts now and runs.

> > > > 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.

Hmm, I only got attached file from running 'gdb gdm3'. I'm possibly
doing this completely wrong, though :)

Hauke

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