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Bug 1449

Summary:	TDM crashes when using any session other than default
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	bugwatch, darrella, kb9vqf
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:
Bug Depends on:	1448
Bug Blocks:

Description Darrell 2013-04-12 17:43:01 CDT

As noted in bug report 1448, TDM currently does not correctly populate the sessions drop-down lists. On my system the only files populating the drop-down list are those files installed at /usr/share/xsessions.

Not yet knowing the root cause of the incorrect populating, TDM would crash repeatably every time I tried to manually change ~/.dmrc to "TDE" or "Trinity."

The crash handler does not provide a backtrace despite having debugging symbols installed.

To duplicate:

1. Edit ~/.dmrc to TDE or Trinity.
2. Start TDM.
3. Attempt to login but do not use the Default session.

Comment 1 Darrell 2013-04-19 15:01:43 CDT

Updated test method:

1. Edit ~/.dmrc to TDE.
2. Temporarily rename $PREFIX/share/apps/tdm/sessions.
3. Restart X/TDM.
4. Verify the session drop-down list does not contain items from $PREFIX/share/apps/tdm/sessions. The list should be mostly limited to the items in /usr/share/xsessions.
5. Attempt to login but do not use the Default session.

Comment 2 Timothy Pearson 2013-04-24 13:53:12 CDT

Resolved in GIT hash 93bbac1.

Thanks for reporting!

Comment 3 Darrell 2013-04-24 18:59:01 CDT

No more crashing. Nice.

Always interesting to see the effects of missing brackets in code. :)

Thanks!

Comment 4 Timothy Pearson 2013-04-24 19:04:55 CDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> No more crashing. Nice.
> 
> Always interesting to see the effects of missing brackets in code. :)
> 
> Thanks!

The missing brackets are mostly a legibility problem; I add them in because it is much easier to spot logic problems (such as this one) when they are present. :-)