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 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921998 Title: unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in indicator_object_get_entries() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/921998/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
