fun with metacity segfaults on rawhide eeepc

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I installed rawhide on an asus eeepc 901 last night... can't say its
>>> been the most enjoyable experience.
>>>
>>> But the big issue I'm seeing which is basically making X unusable
>>> seems to be because metacity is segfaulting (details below).
>>
>> Hi, please see:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
>>
>> And file a bug against metacity with the associated trace.
>>
>> (Someday we will finish http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CrashHandling
>> and this manual work will not be necessary)
>
> OK, I can install debug packages and log tickets without issue but I
> have no idea given that its crashing as I login through GDM I have no
> idea how I'd add GDB to that.

Go to the console and run it through startx. You can just invoke
metacity as your regular window manager.

echo xterm > ~/.xinitrc

Then from the fresh xterm, you can run metacity through gdb. Maybe it
won't be triggered, though, unless you run a full gnome-session.

Matthias' suggestion might be easier, though.

--
Dan