Re: [gdm-list] GDM D-Bus on Solaris

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

On 9/8/07, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron sun com> wrote:
>
> Jon:
>
> I was able to track down the problem with GDM not working on Solaris.  It
> turns out that various processes were crashing due to g_debug calls that
> were passing NULLS in as arguments.  The attached patch fixes these issues
> and now the GDM dialog asks me for username and password and I can log
> in using the new GDM.  That makes it a lot easier for me to work on the
> new GDM, and start doing more interesting things than just getting it
> to work on Solaris.  Can this patch go upstream?

Great! Committed.  Thanks.

> I figured out the problem by using truss, and it highlighted that certain
> processes were causing a SEGV, and that helped to track down the problem.
> Havoc recommended this when I asked about this problem on the dbus mail
> list.  In that discussion, Havoc had some recommendations about how the
> generate_address function could be improved:
>
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-September/008416.html
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-September/008417.html

I think we are already doing the connection setup part correctly.  But
the socket naming changes he recommends are certainly worth doing.

Jon