Re: gnome-session problem

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On 25 Aug 1998, Tom Tromey wrote:

> To: GNU Network Object Model Environment <gnome@jporritt.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: gnome-session problem
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
> 
> Poz> I've got a few problems with getting gnome-session to start. I've
> Poz> compiled everything up without problems, and tried several ways
> Poz> of getting gnome-session to work properly. It seems to start
> Poz> icewm and gnome-smproxy OK, but not panel, gnome-help-browser or
> Poz> gmc. The latter 3 progs can be started individually however. I'm
> Poz> running the latest releases of the gnome package. (gnome-core
> Poz> v0.28-1, gnome-libs v0.27, gnome-utilities v0.28, etc.)
> 
> At least one version of the gnome-libs had a bug that prevented
> programs from working under the session manager.  I'm afraid I don't
> know much more about it than this.
> 
> Maybe you could make a stack trace for one of the failing programs?
> 
> The behavior you see is consistent with this problem.  The reason is
> that neither icewm nor gnome-smproxy use the Gnome libs.

To get a correct stack trace it's sometimes necessary to run
gnome-session under gdb and attach to the panel in the correct moment.

This under FreeBSD (from the panel):

#0  0x20286940 in _XInternAtom ()
#1  0x20286c83 in XInternAtom ()
#2  0x200af8b5 in master_client_connect (client=0x2f080, restarted=0, 
    client_data=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-client.c:262
#3  0x200b2a69 in gnome_client_marshal_signal_2 (object=0x2f080, 
    func=0x200af86c <master_client_connect>, func_data=0x0,
args=0xefbfd098)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-client.c:1911
#4  0x201f4ca5 in gtk_handlers_run ()
#5  0x201f43d3 in gtk_signal_real_emit ()
#6  0x201f1c6e in gtk_signal_emit ()
#7  0x200b03f0 in gnome_client_connect (client=0x2f080)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-client.c:686
#8  0x200af835 in client_parse_func (key=16777223, arg=0x0, 
    state=0xefbfd578)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-client.c:239
#9  0x2031cb3b in group_parse (group=0x3c824, state=0xefbfd578, 
    key=16777223, arg=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/support/argp-parse.c:276
#10 0x2031d36b in parser_finalize (parser=0xefbfd55c, err=7,
arg_ebadkey=1, 
    end_index=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/support/argp-parse.c:677
#11 0x2031d81a in argp_parse (argp=0x2ab3c, argc=1, argv=0xefbfd75c, 
    flags=0, end_index=0x0, input=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/support/argp-parse.c:929
#12 0x2031077a in gnome_parse_arguments (parser=0x2ab3c, argc=1, 
    argv=0xefbfd75c, flags=0, arg_index=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnome/gnome-parse.c:136
#13 0x200c414f in gnome_init (app_id=0x17c2 "panel", app_args=0x2ab3c, 
    argc=1, argv=0xefbfd75c, flags=0, arg_index=0x0)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-init.c:281
#14 0x18d4 in main (argc=1, argv=0xefbfd75c)
    at /home/martin/gnomecvs/gnome-core/panel/main.c:175

If you need more info, please tell me.

Martin

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