Re: gdmchooser segfaulting!!! (was: gdm: please help me!!!)

[Ben Rockwood <benr slip net>]

Hey.... I don't want to sound rude, but look at the output.  
It's pretty obvious what happened.  The browser what trying
to convince IMLIB to open "/bin", which it can't and therefore
IMLIB chocked into a segfault.  Start looking through your configs.
also, findout what's calling for "/convert"....


On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Riccardo Persichetti wrote:

> Hi ben, first of all thanks for your help,
> 
> I figured out what was preventing me to run gdm.
> I just changed the second line in gdm.conf
> 
> "Browser="
> 
> to 0 and gdm started without any problem.
> Now my question is: how could I use gdm so that it displays the face browser?
> 
> Trying to debug my problem, I changed the line in gdm.conf "Browser=" back
> to 1, then launched "gdmchooser" as root from a rxvt terminal and it returned:
> 
> 
> /convert: No such file or directory
> /convert: No such file or directory
> gdk_imlib_ERROR: Cannot load image: /bin
> All fallbacks failed.
> Segmentation fault
> 
> 
> Could someone please tell me how to solve this problem.
> Any suggetion would be appreciated.
> 
> At 12.05 01/04/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >Try setting KillInitClients=0
> >Also, remove all the PID files for GDM (/var/run/GDM.PID).  I'm assuming
> >you've tried a reboot for flushing purposes.  
> >The best way to test GDM is to start GDMgreet from within X.  It
> >doesn't do anything useful, because you're already logged in, but you
> >can do some troubleshooting that way.  Make sure you're starting GDM
> >as root.  This happened to me too, but I can't remember exsactly what
> >the problem was.... what I CAN tell you is that something (I don't
> >see a problem from your GDM.conf, but...) is wrong with your gdm.conf.
> >It might be a permissioning problem with some of the involved directories.
> >
> >On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Riccardo Persichetti wrote:
> >
> >> I've got sources of gnome, compiled, installed and everything is ok.
> >> I'm running Debian 2.1.
> >> 
> >> But gdm doesn't work: when i launch it, it starts the X server, set the
> root
> >> color, wait a few seconds and then kill X server.
> >> It does so in a never-ending loop.
> >> 
> >> To help you to help me :-)
> >> here are two files:
> >> 
> >> syslog
> >> ------
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[187]: gdm_config_parse: Invalid server line in
> >> config file. Ignoring!
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_main: Here we go...
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_local_servers_start: Starting :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_start: :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Securing :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Could not
> >> unlink /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth file: No such file or directory
> >> Apr  1 18:03:10 ricpersi gdm[190]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X -auth
> >> /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth :0'
> >> Apr  1 18:03:11 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting
> >> display :0!
> >> Apr  1 18:03:11 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_display_manage: Managing :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_display_manage: Forked slave:
> 192... 
> >> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process
> >> for :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_start: Opening display :0
> >> Apr  1 18:03:15 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[192]: gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 198
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_child_handler: child 190 returned 0
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_child_action: :0
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_start: :0
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Securing :0
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[200]: gdm_server_start: '/usr/bin/X11/X -auth
> >> /opt/gnome/var/gdm/:0.xauth :0'
> >> Apr  1 18:04:14 ricpersi gdm[188]: gdm_server_usr1_handler: Starting
> >> display :0!
> >> 
> >> gdm.conf
> >> --------
> >> [appearance]
> >> Browser=1
> >> Completion=1
> >> Logo=1
> >> LogoImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-large.png
> >> NoFaceImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nophoto.png
> >> GlobalImageDir=
> >> Quiver=1
> >> Iconify=1
> >> IconFile=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/gdm.xpm
> >> Gtkrc=
> >> 
> >> [system]
> >> ShutdownMenu=1
> >> SuspendCommand=
> >> UserFileCutoffSize=65536
> >> UserIconMaxWidth=128
> >> UserIconMaxHeight=128
> >> DefaultPath=/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin
> >> 
> >> [messages]
> >> Welcome=Welcome to %h
> >> 
> >> [daemon]
> >> SessionDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Sessions
> >> PidFile=/var/run/gdm.pid
> >> Greeter=/opt/gnome/bin/gdmgreeter
> >> Chooser=/opt/gnome/bin/gdmchooser
> >> User=gdm
> >> Group=gdm
> >> DisplayInitDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Init
> >> KillInitClients=1
> >> PreSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PreSession
> >> PostSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PostSession
> >> AuthDir=/opt/gnome/var/gdm
> >> LogDir=/opt/gnome/var/gdm
> >> 
> >> [servers]
> >> 0=/usr/bin/X11/X
> >> #1=/usr/bin/X11/X
> >> 
> >> [xdmcp]
> >> Enable=0
> >> MaxLoadAvg=10
> >> MaxPending=4
> >> MaxManageWait=20
> >> MaxSessions=4
> >> Port=177
> >> 
> >> [chooser]
> >> ImageDir=
> >> DefaultImage=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nohost.png
> >> 
> >> [debug]
> >> Enable=1
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Please I really need your help, i've tried all the way i could but I
> FAILED!!!
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> 
> >>   Riccardo
> >> 
> >> 
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