Bug 53868 – GDM 2.6.0 crashes when trying to change language

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED INVALID

[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) 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) 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) 2004-08-02 07:59:40 UTC]

not enough info, closing.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 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.