Re: [gdm-list] at-spi-registryd not starting automatically in gdm [was multiple at-spi...]

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com>]

Francesco:

Great, I'm glad we finally tracked down the problem.

To fix this problem properly, we should probably add a new configure option.
Note it already supports configuration like this.  For example with logdir:

---

AC_ARG_WITH(log-dir,    [  --with-log-dir=<file>     log dir])

if ! test -z "$with_log_dir"; then
   GDM_LOG_DIR=$with_log_dir
else
   GDM_LOG_DIR=/var/log/gdm
fi
AC_SUBST(logdir, $GDM_LOG_DIR)

---

We probably should add a --with-atspi-dir which defaults to libexecdir.
The code would look very similar to the above except you'ld use
atspi-dir instead of log-dir, etc and set a variable called GDM_ATSPI_DIR.

One minor difference, you need to use this code (already in configure.ac)
to get the right libexecdir value:

if test ${libexecdir} = "\${exec_prefix}/libexec"; then
   ssh_libexec="$real_gdm_prefix/libexec"
else
   ssh_libexec="${libexecdir}"
fi

So, you could add your test after we set ssh_libexec in the script
and set it to ssh_libexec if with-atspi-dir is not passed in.

Then you would need to modify the code so it gets the value from
GDM_LOG_DIR rather than just using LIBEXECDIR.  Note in daemon/Makefile.am
that we set -DLOGDIR, so you'ld need to set a similar -D argument for
this to set ATSPIDIR, and then reference ATSPIDIR in the c-file.

Then you should be able to configure this.

Can you try this?

Brian

> I may have approached the problem.
>
> In gdmlogin.c in the function pre-atspi_launch:
>
> ORIGINAL:
>
> The line
> command = g_strdup (LIBEXECDIR "/at-spi-registryd");
> gives:
> /usr/local/libexec/at-spi-registryd
>
> Moreover, the error argument of g_spawn_async() returned:
> Failed to execute child process "/usr/local/libexec/at-spi-registryd" 
> (No such file or directory)
>
>
>
>
> MODIFICATION:
>
>
> So I commented out the line
> command = g_strdup (LIBEXECDIR "/at-spi-registryd");
> and modified the declaration of command to:
> char *command = "/usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd";
> (This is the location of at-spi-registryd on my Ubuntu installation.)
>
> Now I get the XEVIE error (see my previous email) in the terminal 
> where I launch ./gdmlogin, but at-spi-registryd gets started.
>
>
>
>
> LIBEXECDIR
>
> I have no clue at the moment, where LIBEXECDIR resides and how to 
> correct the problem.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Francesco
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