GDM Greeter cores on FreeBSD

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Kees Jan Koster wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I use the Gnome GDM2 greeter in graphical mode, but recent versions of
>it dump core (signal 6). This happens on both machines that I use it on.
>One is a desktop and the other is a laptop, so I dounbt it is a hardware
>issue.
>
>My OS is FreeBSD-stable, cvsupped as of this week. I use portupgrade to
>keep my ports up to date.
>
>To reproduce:
>
> * install recent (this week) version of FreeBSD's gdm2 port.
> * start it using the shell script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
> * choose the configure option
> * enter root password
> * pick graphical mode
> * *churn, churn* *POW* signal 6
>
>warning: GDM greeter will not restart at all after following the above
>procedure. I removed the port and reinstalled it to fix the problem.
>
>Plain mode (default) works fine, so that is what I use now.
>
>Anyone else see this problem? How do I fix this?
>

As a quick olution apply this in to libart_lgpl2.

--- art_render_gradient.c.orig  Mon Sep  8 07:32:33 2003
+++ art_render_gradient.c       Sun Sep  7 20:18:18 2003
@@ -336,10 +336,10 @@
   assert ((stops[ix-1].offset <= offset_fraction + EPSILON) ||
          ((stops[ix].offset > (1.0 - EPSILON)) && (offset_fraction < E
 == 0.0*/)));
   assert (offset_fraction <= stops[ix].offset);
-  assert (fabs (offset_fraction - stops[ix-1].offset) > EPSILON ||
+/*  assert (fabs (offset_fraction - stops[ix-1].offset) > EPSILON ||
          (d_offset >= 0.0));
   assert (fabs (offset_fraction - stops[ix].offset) > EPSILON ||
-         (d_offset <= 0.0));
+         (d_offset <= 0.0));*/
  
   while (width > 0)
     {


All the best,
Alexander.

>
> Yours,
>   Kees Jan
>
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-- 
Alexander