From the Redhat 7 login manager,when i choose to reboot or restart the system,after clicking OK when selecting to reboot,i get a black screen ,then i get the login manager again and then 5 or 10 seconds later,it goes into the shut down and restart phase,but it crashes first,then it restarts like normal.I have a Diamond Speedstar A50 Video Card.It only happens on selection of reboot not halt or shutdown,it also happens in either KDE or Gnome,when i select to reboot only.The message from the crash tells me to type this in a Xterm(gdb /etc/X11/X //core where)It also tells me to submit the bug to XFree86,but i figured and was told by support to submit it here as well...My machine is as follows(PII/400Mhz 256megs ram) With Diamond Speedstar A50 Video Card and Creative awe64 sound card if it even matters..Please try to help me to figure this problem out>>>When i was running Redhat 6.2 the same problem happened and i just Downloaded Helix Gnome from helix code web site through lynx,and selected to use their login manager as my default login manager,and i had never seen the crash again,but i would like to keep the Gnome from your Redhat 7 CD. Please help!!! Thanks JohnnyO asap811 Username for support is as follows (happjo)
Sounds like it might be a gdm problem.
The GDM in rawhide currently is very different from the GDM shipped in 6.2/7.0. This apparently had something to do with your particular setup, and maybe your video card, since this didn't happen for most things. (It's pretty hard for GDM to trigger a segfault in X anyways, so there is something X related here.) There really isn't any way I can debug this, so I'm closing this as resolved, since I expect that changes to GDM and or X have most likely made it go away. If you upgrade once we make a new release incorporating a GDM-2.2 release and this still happens please reopen this bug or file a new bug. (You could also try installing the GNOME and GDM packages for rawhide, but this is a pretty big set of packages, and there are enough system changes invoveld that trying to upgrade to it piecemeal might cause stability problems.)