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Bug 53868 - GDM 2.6.0 crashes when trying to change language
Summary: GDM 2.6.0 crashes when trying to change language
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2004-06-14 01:34 UTC by David Chart
Modified: 2004-08-08 05:01 UTC (History)
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Description David Chart 2004-06-14 01:34:32 UTC
When I click on the 'Language' button on GDM (graphical greeter), it appears to crash and restart. (I get the commandline screen briefly.) I certainly don't get the language change dialog.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the 'Language' button on the graphical greeter.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
GDM quits and restarts.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to change the language for the session.

Emerge info:

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-ppc-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.4.24-ppc-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.24-ppc-r2 ppc 7455, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa berkdb bonobo canna cjk cups dvd esd foomaticdb freewnn gdbm gif
gnome gnome-libs gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde libwww mitshm
motif mozilla nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc python qt readline sdl
slang spell ssl tcpd truetype unicode xml2 xmms xv"
Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-14 10:45:18 UTC
hm... the latest gdm in portage is gdm-2.4.4.7-r1.ebuild.
Comment 2 David Chart 2004-06-14 15:46:44 UTC
OK, so maybe it's that one. The version in the current stable PPC portage set. I couldn't find an easy way to check its version number, so I guessed based on it coming with GNOME 2.6.0.
Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-13 15:35:15 UTC
anything relevant in your gdm logs ? -> /var/lib/log/gdm/*
Comment 4 David Chart 2004-07-15 00:36:14 UTC
I don't know. As I mentioned on another bug report, PPC-stable was too unstable for normal use on my machine, so I had to change distributions. I no longer have that file.
Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-02 07:59:40 UTC
not enough info, closing.
Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-08 05:01:27 UTC
this has been investigated & fixed by one of the arch teams btw. gdm 2.4.4.7-r1 and up should be safe.