Can't get a gnome session?

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

The glib package, not the glibc package. 

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> Where goes the libgthread stuff live -- glibc?  I don't mind digging in 
> and looking at this gthread-posix.c file to see what the story is, but I'm 
> stabbing in the dark at where I can find that (I only have lynx to work 
> with right now).
> 
> I pulled down glibc-2.3.2 but didn't find that file.
> 
> Duane
>  On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:31:24PM -0500, Duane Morin wrote:
> > > Ok, this isn't cool.  I've been running Redhat 9 with Ximian happily for 
> > > weeks now, periodically getting the software updates that are recommended.
> > > Today all of a sudden java stopped working, throwing vm errors.  
> > > I reboot...and now I can't even get a gnome session.  As in, I log in
> > > and gnome tells me "Your session lasted less than 10 seconds.  Use a 
> > > failsafe session and see if you can fix the problem."  So I'm in a 
> > > failsafe session now and ssh'd into my mail machine to send a help
> > > message :).
> > > 
> > > Here's the message I get now if I try to run red-carpet, for instance, to 
> > > get fresh updates:
> > > 
> > > GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 135 (): error 'No such 
> > > process' during 'pthread_getschedparam (pthread_self(), &policy, &sched)'
> > > aborting...
> > 
> > I'd say 80% or higher chance this is caused by the new threads stuff that's 
> > being discussed on this list the past few days.
> > 
> > Not that this information helps you directly.  Sorry.
> > 
> > > I am getting very bad flashbacks.  A red-carpet crash that cost me my 
> > > home directory on a past machine is what caused me to give up on Redhat
> > > and switch to Mandrake originally, and I've only recently come back 
> > > to Redhat 9.
> > 
> > For the first time, I've set up a separate /home partition that will survive
> > OS changes.  I've always been in the "one big /" camp, but the odds of
> > me reinstalling was high.
> > 
> > Oh.  And do backups.  
> > 
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