Re: [gdm-list] Recent crash problem on Solaris

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Jon:

Thanks, your recent updates to GDM SVN head fixed the crashing problem.

Brian


> After updating to the latest GDM SVN head, I noticed that GDM started
> crashing on Solaris.  It would start up the Xserver okay, but it would
> just hang there and never start the greeter.
>
> According to truss, it seems that one of the processes (I think the
> simple-slave) was crashing with a SEGV immediately after receiving the
> USR1 signal from the Xserver.
>
> It took me quite a while to figure out what change caused this problem,
> Backing out the change to common/gdm-signal-handler.c so that setup
> handler->priv->lookup is created with g_hash_table_new_full instead of
> g_hash_table_new fixes the crashing problem with the simple-server.
> Refer to the patch that fixes the crash problem.
>
> I also found that leaving the g_hash_table_new_full call in place,
> but commenting out the code in the signal_list_free function also avoids
> the crash.
>
> I'm not sure what the right fix is here.  I'm happy to do some
> additional debugging if you have any suggestions of what to look
> for.
>
> Brian
>
>
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