Re: Solaris x86 7 and gnome-session

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James hit this problem on the head. Doing the backtrace suggested by
James and Tom showed the problem was  in the ICE library udate. The
problem is with  X11R6.4 updates  which were included in the latest MU
(and possibly the older MU's aswell).

 I had to remove the patch  107649-09  and to do this I also had to
remove the 107659-04 107657-04 107655-05 107653-03 107651-05. Once these
were removed then gnome-session  runs again. Reading the README's for
these the main problem with removing these patches was fixing a bug with
StarOffice 5.1. The bug was that when quiting StarOffice 5.1 then the X
server would die. I presume this is with Xsun. I am running XIG server
at present and this does not have the problem. People runnung the Sun X
server and StarOffice might want to be careful with removing these
patches.

Thanks for the help. 

Dave

jamesm@ee.adfa.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > I have recently upgraded from a basic Solaris x86 7 install to the
> > latest MU (MU4 - basically the latest update to Solaris 7)  and this has
> > caused gnome-session to fail. The tail of the  truss output gives the
> > following
> >
> > X_mkdirwrite(2, " X _ m k d i r", 7)                    = 7
> > : write(2, " :  ", 2)                           = 2
> > Not ownerwrite(2, " N o t   o w n e r", 9)              = 9
> >
> > write(2, "\n", 1)                               = 1
> > pipe()                                          = 5 [6]
> > ioctl(6, I_PUSH, "connld")                      = 0
> >     Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0xDF746AC0
> >       siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
> >     Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]
> >       siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
> >         *** process killed ***
> >
> > I have tried recompiling after the update and also tried installing the
> > gnome-core-1.1.0 and it makes no difference. I am using GNOME 1.0.53.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions about getting rid of this. I have tried
> > using gnome-wm and panel in the startup script and this works although
> > my default session is no longer used and to logout you have to logout of
> > ethe window manager (enlightenment 0.16-2 in my case). Is there any way
> > to get the same setup as used by gnome-session  by using gnome-wm and
> > panel etc as direct entries in the startup script.
> >
> 
>         I think the problem is due to the X11R6.4 update (I have patch
> 107649-09 written down on a scrap of paper and I think this *might* be the
> one).  Specifically I think the problem is in libICE.  Do a gdb backtrace
> on the core dump from gnome-session and you should see it die in the guts
> of libICE.
> 
>         Would be interested to know if you come across a solution.
> 
> --
> James Macnicol
> j-macnicol@adfa.edu.au

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