Re: gnome3 crash at login
On 05/02/2012 04:13 PM, dave perry wrote:
The following gnome3 crash occurs when attempting to log in to my
personal account. Gnome3 presents the log-in screen with my user name
selected. When I enter my password and press enter, the crash occurs.
On screen I see a frowning monitor and
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again.
Since I can still log in to other accounts, I assume there is something
causing the crash in one of the hidden files or folders. This began to
happen a few weeks ago after a "yum update".
Where to begin to isolate what changed?
By backing up all the hidden files, then
deleting all the hidden files
and bringing them back in a few at a time and logging out and back into
this account until the crash occurred, I isolated the problem to a
library path export in .bashrc. See the inserted copy that follows.
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# User specific aliases and functions
export FG_ROOT=/home/dad/FlightGear-git/fgdata
export
FG_SCENERY=/home/dad/FlightGear-git/fgdata/Scenery:/home/dad/TerraSync
export HG2_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/hg2
#export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/lib64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins
export
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/OpenSceneGraph/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/include
The commented out export LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes gnome3 to crash
The next line is a copy of that line w/o reference to the lib64
libraries and this does not cause gnome3 to crash. This is clearly a
bug that was introduces a week or so ago by an update.
I should have mentioned this is FC16 x86_64 fresh install from the DVD
iso that has been been kept up-to-date with yum.