Bug 11075

Summary: KDM/XDM + FreeBSD-4.1 generates weird problems.
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Unknown <null>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: grave    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Other   
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Description pschmied 2000-09-19 05:24:44 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package: kwrited
Version: 2.0.0 (KDE 1.94 >= 20000911)
Severity: grave

I start kde 2.0 final beta via "startx" and everything works great. I start kde from xdm or kdm and it generally sucks.  I'm inittially greeted with kwrited crashing and then my konsole crashes as soon as I load it.  This only happens when I start with kdm or xdm not with "startx."
I hope this helps.  Sorry I could not generate a backtrace.  That hangs too under kdm / xdm login sessions.

-Peter
Comment 1 Mike Oliver 2000-10-19 20:48:59 UTC 
I experienced a similar problem on my FreeBSD 4.1.1 system with
XFree86 4.0.1. kwrited crashes upon startup with a SIGABRT; the
same thing happens if konsole or konqueror are started from the
klicker.

The crashes occur when the programs are run without being attached
to a terminal for instance from an .xsession file.  When kwrited
konsole or konqueror are started from an xterm they run without
problems.

The crashes trace to TEPty::makePty. Specifically the abort() is
triggered on lines 438 and 439 of TEPty.C:

  if (! (str_ptr=ttyname(0)) ) {
    abort();

The crashes went away when I made the following substitution:

  if (! (str_ptr=ttyname(fd)) ) {
    abort();

I have no idea what this breaks but it solves my problem.  The
utmp stuff doesn't work at all under FreeBSD so perhaps it would
be better to just comment out this part in FreeBSD for now if this
substitution produces incorrect behaviour.
Comment 2 Chris Machemer 2001-04-28 01:08:48 UTC 
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