Bug 114765

Summary:	gdm crashed when choosing language
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ladislav Michnovic <lmichnovic>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Attachments:	strace output strace output strace output strace output strace output

Description Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-01 16:05:40 UTC

In my installation I installed GNOME, Slovak language as default and all
languages. In gdm when I choose selection of language it appears a blank window
for a very short while and gdm crashes. System automaticly restarts gdm.
Maybe it's only a problem that are so many languages. IMHO it's independent on
language selection.

Comment 1 Mark Gordon 2005-09-02 18:02:13 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this.  I even set my system language to Slovak, hoping
it would help.  No luck.  Then again, I also have support for other languages
installed.

Do you have support for other languages installed?
Can you install debuginfo packages and get a stack trace from gdm?

Comment 2 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 09:40:16 UTC

I'm attaching strace output from two gdm processes. The bigger one is from
parent gdm process, and the shorter one is from the child process. Gdb writes
me: Program exited with code 0101, when crashed.

> Do you have support for other languages installed?
Yes.

Comment 3 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 09:41:00 UTC

Created attachment 48756 [details]
strace output

Comment 4 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 09:41:19 UTC

Created attachment 48757 [details]
strace output

Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2005-09-05 12:32:32 UTC

The strace is much use - can you replicate this with other languages?

The last thing it looks at is  /etc/security/pam_unix2.conf.  Before that it
appears to properly read in the sk language files.

Are you saying that gdb is crashing?

Comment 6 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 13:52:10 UTC

Created attachment 48808 [details]
strace output

Output of processes: 
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
12710 ?        Ss     0:00 /opt/gnome/sbin/gdm
15036 ?        S      0:00  \_ /opt/gnome/sbin/gdm
15041 tty7     Ss+    0:00	\_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7

Parent is the process with the lowest PID, last child is the process whith the
highest PID.

Comment 7 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 13:52:52 UTC

Created attachment 48809 [details]
strace output

Comment 8 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 13:53:12 UTC

Created attachment 48810 [details]
strace output

Comment 9 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 13:55:57 UTC

I was unable to reproduce this bug when default language was english.

Comment 10 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 14:15:23 UTC

When czech language selected, gdm crashing as well. 
After few crashes it displays message:
The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one.
And starts a not so cool loking gdm-like display manager, where the selection of
language is through menu, not in separate window, and it not crashes any more.

Comment 11 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-05 16:33:21 UTC

#1: Do you had installed all languages support? I selected in yast language
section all posible choices. I think, this is the key to reproduce this bug.

Comment 12 JP Rosevear 2005-09-06 16:10:09 UTC

I installed all the languages and can replicate the crash.

Comment 13 JP Rosevear 2005-09-06 16:34:49 UTC

Found the problem, its the same as bug 113602.  Fixed both with a patch to 0.9.2
post beta 4 and then upstream with cairo 1.0.0.  Confirmed I can no longer
replicate the patch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113602 ***

Comment 14 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-07 10:01:11 UTC

I upgraded cairo to 1.0 and it's OK now. Thanks.