Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (35 mails)

["Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bernhardout@xxxxxxxx>]

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Am 25.06.2011 05:10, schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky:
> I have two machines, both running openSUSE 11.4 with GNOME 3 desktops.
> Both are 64-bit with 4 GB of RAM and both have VMware Workstation 7.1.4
> installed.
>
> One of them works fine (a desktop) but the other, a laptop, has a
> bizarre issue. When VMware Workstation is running, at certain
> unpredictable times, the desktop logs out all the way to the login
> prompt, killing the VMware processes.
>
> I know a little bit about what's happening - when I use the GTK
> libraries that come with VMware rather than those in openSUSE, this
> doesn't happen. There's an environment variable setting
>
> VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="force"
>
> that does this, and when I have that set, everything works. Two questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone else seen this? I'm going to explore the VMware forums to
> see if they have any clues, but since I have a workaround, I'm guessing
> VMware Workstation isn't using the newer GTK libraries from GNOME 3
> correctly and there's nothing broken in openSUSE. I don't know why this
> should crash the whole session down to a login prompt, though.
>
> 2. Is there any way I can figure out what's happening in more detail?
> It's very sudden and I haven't seen any crash dumps anywhere. Is there a
> way to run "gdm" with a debugger and get a stack trace or something?

my guess is that the gnome session crashes.
when gdm restarted, there could be some info in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
or /var/log/gdm something

Ciao
Bernhard M.
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