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sheeva_fans

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] GDM autostart segfault problem

Hello..
I'm new to Arch and have a problem with gdm autostart.
I have add gdm to daemon list, and based on boot up screen it was successfully started. But nothing happened afterwards. I still have to start gnome manually (using startx). Manual gnome-session with startx is fine.
here's some copy (gdm-related) from everything.log

Dec 10 02:03:14 localhost kernel: gdm[3211]: segfault at bf1e5fec ip 08060446 sp bf1e5ff0 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:03:25 localhost kernel: gdm[3216]: segfault at bf728f8c ip 08060446 sp bf728f90 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:05:59 localhost kernel: gdm[3246]: segfault at bf530f40 ip 080626e9 sp bf530f00 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:06:10 localhost kernel: gdm[3252]: segfault at bf4eeed0 ip 080626e9 sp bf4eee90 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:06:21 localhost kernel: gdm[3255]: segfault at bf201e90 ip 080626e9 sp bf201e50 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:06:32 localhost kernel: gdm[3261]: segfault at bf52fff0 ip 080626e9 sp bf52ffb0 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:06:42 localhost kernel: gdm[3265]: segfault at bf190fd4 ip b75f41a9 sp bf190fd8 error 6 in libc-2.12.1.so[b7586000$
Dec 10 02:06:53 localhost kernel: gdm[3270]: segfault at bf0e0e50 ip 080626e9 sp bf0e0e10 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:07:05 localhost kernel: gdm[3273]: segfault at bf3b2e10 ip 080626e9 sp bf3b2dd0 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]
Dec 10 02:07:15 localhost kernel: gdm[3280]: segfault at bf7ccd70 ip 080626e9 sp bf7ccd30 error 6 in bash[8048000+92000]

and output of uname -a (in case it's related)

Linux bam-linux 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 06:44:11 UTC 2010 i686 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Any help would be appreciated. Please ask If there's other logs and/or specific info I have to give.
Thanks.

edit:
Added HAL to daemon array solved the problem.

Last edited by sheeva_fans (2010-12-10 10:21:06)

kwebb1

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Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] GDM autostart segfault problem

Is hal in the daemon list?  If not it needs to be for gdm to run.

sheeva_fans

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] GDM autostart segfault problem

Is hal in the daemon list?  If not it needs to be for gdm to run.

duh, never think of that..
thanks, finally it works

Stunts

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Registered: 2009-03-28

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Re: [SOLVED] GDM autostart segfault problem

You probably don't need to start hal in the daemons array, just dbus. Is it enabled?
Because staring hal will also start dbus, and that is probably why it made it work. Changing it will probably shave a few seconds (1 or 2) of your boot time too.