Bug 58184

Summary:	Entrance crashes, attempts to restart, goes into loop when bad theme passed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Johns <hoborocks>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://xcomputerman.com/bugs/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000196
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Johns 2004-07-24 07:19:36 UTC

I'm not sure if this is a problem with the gentoo build (doubt it, but I've learned not to talk to developers of software and tell them that I use gentoo....:-/) but if you pass an incorrect theme value (e.g. one that doesn't exist) to entrance-0.9.0.20040710, it will crash, and attempt to restart, crash again, restart, etc. etc. etc...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use edb_gtk_ed, edb_vt_ed, or edb_ed to open /etc/entrance_config.db
2. change str: /entrance/theme to a nonexistent theme name (e.g. foo.eet)
3. log out of X
4. attempt to start your DM (entranced obviously)

Actual Results:  
It goes into a crashing loop that never ends.

Expected Results:  
Entranced should detect that it is not starting and gracefully exit, reverting
back to xdm.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r11)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
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 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang
spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 xcakm02 2005-01-26 02:50:01 UTC

It does the same thing on my machine, even though I pass a correct theme :-(

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-08-19 20:37:59 UTC

moved upstream