Workstation Problems
These things need to be diagnosed.Enlightenment cores at startup
I currently prefer to use Enlightenment as my window manager. At one point, I began to have a problem on my laptop where Enlightenment would core dump at startup some of the time. It was one of those annoying problems I knew I should diagnose, but never got around to it because of the amount of effort involved.
Then one day, it started happening on my desktop. I noticed this right after I had configured xdm for that machine. I haven't taken any time to confirm that, but I am guessing that there must be some kind of conflict between xdm and Enlightenment, or that Enlightenment does not like the way the X server behaves when it has been initialized already.
Update: After much ado, I sort of figured out how to change the command-line that Gnome uses to start Enlightenment, and got it to use ktrace when starting it. Unfortunately, I can see where the SIGSEGV occurs, but I don' think I can tell where in the code it was when it happened. I wish it would just dump a core file then.
Well, let's see here ...
- 3601: socket(), returns handle 3
- 3607: connect() unix domain socket, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
- 63238: socket(), returns handle 5
- 63234: caught SIGSEGV
- 63243: connect() unix domain socket, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
- 63250-63270: read .Xauthority