Here's an odd bug. I guess this should probably go upstream, but I wanted to get your thoughts first. This has been reproduced on several fluxbox versions including 1.0_rc2-r2 When run as root, fluxbox starts fine. When run as a user, startfluxbox gives this output: Failed to read: session.tabs Setting default value Failed to read: session.ignoreBorder Setting default value Failed to read: session.forcePseudoTransparency Setting default value Failed to read: session.numLayers Setting default value Failed to read: session.tabPadding Setting default value Failed to read: session.focusTabMinWidth Setting default value Failed to read: session.styleOverlay Setting default value Failed to read: session.slitlistFile Setting default value Failed to read: session.groupFile Setting default value Failed to read: session.appsFile Setting default value Failed to read: session.tabsAttachArea Setting default value Failed to read: session.modKey Setting default value apps file failure ThemeItem<Font>: Warning! Failed to load default value 'fixed' ThemeItem<Font>: Warning! Failed to load default value 'fixed' ThemeItem<Font>: Warning! Failed to load default value 'fixed' Aborted I have tried using the root ~/.fluxbox directory under my user, no change. strace shows a segfault: read(3, 0x7fffffa6b3b0, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 read(3, "\1\0\320\0\0\0\0\0\377\377\377\377\377\377\0\0\377\377"..., 32) = 32 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 gettid() = 12386 tgkill(12386, 12386, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ Process 12386 detached gdb says it is font related: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000004e1544 in FbTk::Font::height (this=0x0) at Font.cc:240 240 return m_fontimp->height(); (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000004e1544 in FbTk::Font::height (this=0x0) at Font.cc:240 #1 0x00000000004f075e in MenuTheme (this=0x718f10, screen_num=0) at MenuTheme.hh:85 #2 0x000000000048e12a in MenuTheme (this=0x718f10, screen_num=7447296) at MenuTheme.cc:56 #3 0x000000000044f48a in BScreen (this=0x691c00, rm=@0x67ef40, screenname=@0x7fffffe74870, altscreenname=@0x7fffffe74850, scrn=0, num_layers=6889192) at memory:191 #4 0x000000000042e4e7 in Fluxbox::initScreen (this=0x67ef10, scrnr=0) at fluxbox.hh:129 #5 0x00000000004311d6 in Fluxbox (this=0x67ef10, argc=1, argv=0x67f5c0, dpy_name=0x71a300 "", rcfilename=0x7fffffe74c10 "@�h") at stl_vector.h:462 #6 0x000000000043cb90 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffe75178) at basic_string.h:1458 Any ideas? Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo noman parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acl alsa apm bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gif gnutls gtk gtk2 hal imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libclamav linguas_en lzw lzw-tiff madwifi mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nvidia oav opengl openntpd pam pam_chroot pam_timestamp pcre png pppd pwdb python quicktime quotas readline reflection rtc samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa winbind xinerama xml xml2 xorg xpm xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
We had a bad zlib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for that user. Sorry for the noise.
