Bug 562356

Summary: gdm crashes at every startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nicholas Miell <nmiell>
Component: gdmAssignee: jmccann
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: cschalle, jmccann, rstrode
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: EasyFix, Patch
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-03-16 00:33:42 UTC Type: ---
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gdb backtrace of gdm as dumped to syslog
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Drop in replacement for the existing fix-run-dir-permissions.patch none

Description Nicholas Miell 2010-02-06 06:13:03 UTC
Created attachment 389243 [details]
gdb backtrace of gdm as dumped to syslog

Description of problem:
gdm crashes at boot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.28.2-1.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot the system
  
Actual results:
gdm spews a gdb backtrace into syslog, but continues on to present the greeter and allow logins

Expected results:
no crashing

Comment 1 Nicholas Miell 2010-03-10 04:15:34 UTC
A month later, and it's still crashing at every startup.

Comment 2 Nicholas Miell 2010-03-10 23:26:08 UTC
This was fixed upstream in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=d1acb1fc4dbf90afc4447f221ba864f6dc3d8370

Comment 3 Nicholas Miell 2010-03-10 23:32:27 UTC
Created attachment 399204 [details]
Drop in replacement for the existing fix-run-dir-permissions.patch

I'm building a test package with this right now

Comment 4 Nicholas Miell 2010-03-11 00:03:52 UTC
Patch fixes problem, please apply.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-03-11 04:44:12 UTC
gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-03-12 04:29:53 UTC
gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gdm'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-03-16 00:33:37 UTC
gdm-2.28.2-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.