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

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

Hello Brian,


What is puzzling me however, is that in Ubuntu 7.04, at-spi-registryd 
is also located in /usr/lib/at-spi/. And there, registryd starts. 
Ubuntu 7.04 uses gdm 2.18.1.

In my tests of yesterday, the variable command had the value 
/usr/local/libexec/at-spi-registryd. Could this be related to the 
fact that I did a configure without --prefix? Not that the wrong 
value of LIBEXECDIR can be caused by me not doing ./configure as I 
should!?


I will add links to these emails in the bug report in Ubuntu. Maybe 
somebody more knowledgeable than me can do the fix. Otherwise, I will 
try my best; probably in two weeks.


Francesco.

PS: I did an error in my previous email: g_spawn_async() is in 
gdmcommon.c and not in gdmlogin.c

> 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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