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unity-greeter package

  1. Bug #921998
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 921998

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs) wrote : Re: [Bug 921998] Re: unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in indicator_object_get_entries()

On 01/28/2012 04:24 AM, LaMont Jones wrote:
> Somewhere in the pile, there is a missing Depends: indicator-datetime
> indicator-power. Installing both of those packages lets the unity-
> greeter run again.
>
> The failure mode of X constantly launching something that dies does make
> debugging it rather painful. It would be good to wrap unity-greeter
> with something that counts how many times it dies, and if it gets high
> enough, STOPS LAUNCHING IT and does a sleep 9999999h. That way, one can
> switch to another vt to deal with it, instead of needing to reboot,
> break, and chmod a-x /usr/bin/X or so to get it to stop hurting so much.

Totally agree. The way the failure occured, it tooks my a couple reboots
to narrow it down to libghtdm. Even saKing the process didn't help. It
froze the system.

Ritesh

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