mdm-fix

<clem_> zerozero: if you here people get MDM crash, I found something
<clem_> s/here/hear/
<clem_> zerozero: on one of my ISOs (don't know why in that particular one and not others) MDM always crashed
<zerozero> yeah clem_
<dan> when i ssh into a remote shell my gome terminal title changes to username@remotehost
<zerozero> listening...
<dan> which is fine
<clem_> zerozero: ok, first.. the easy thing
<dan> but when i exit the remote shell it stays username@remote
<clem_> zerozero: when the RAM is low or the CD dirty or whatever gets in the way, LMDE fails to auto-login
<clem_> zerozero: in Mint 13 I added a timedlogin as well as an autologin
<clem_> zerozero: and the MDM theme was given an update to show that timed countdown (10 seconds)
<clem_> zerozero: so that's a significant improvement for an LMDE ISO respin
<clem_> zerozero: the big thing now...
<clem_> zerozero: on that particular buggy ISO, MDM crashed all the time
<clem_> zerozero: I debugged it and found it was calling fontconfig and got a segfault
<clem_> zerozero: the reason it's calling fontconfig was to know which languages to show and to not show in the MDM language list (on the login screen)
<clem_> zerozero: according to my tests, the way we configure the ISO, it makes no difference if we skip the test and stop calling fontconfig
<zerozero> clem_: i only have it on one install and has been fine so far
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<clem_> zerozero: so I committed a fix for this in MDM and it doesn't use fontconfig anymore. On my machine, it went from a segfault with no login screen to a working MDM.
<clem_> zerozero: I can't say for sure that's THE reason it crashes for everybody else... but here's how people can find out
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<zerozero> yeahh
<clem_> zerozero: export DOING_MDM_DEVELOPMENT=1
<clem_> zerozero: gdb /usr/lib/mdm/mdmlogin
<guest2763_web> I'm having a problem installing LMDE in Virtualbox
<clem_> zerozero: then type "start" in gdb to launch it
<clem_> zerozero: in my case it showed a sigsev from libfontconfig1.so
<clem_> zerozero: if people see libfontconfig1.so then that issue is the same and there's a fix on the way
<zerozero> ok,
<clem_> zerozero: I'm not 100% clear on why fontconfig fails... as far as I know it's trying to check whether a particular language has proper font config.. and it fails on chinese, not sure with which font though
<zerozero> but what about the existing iso online
<clem_> zerozero: it will need a respin
<zerozero> ahh clear
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<clem_> zerozero: but look, there's not just that, there's a lot of things which are getting better in Mint 13 so LMDE will need a respin a month later or so
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<clem_> zerozero: LMDE introduced a lot of improvements which are useful now to make Mint 13, but we're finding a lot more too right now
<zerozero> heh clem_   lets hope so
<clem_> in MATE too, they're finding new fixes
<clem_> for instance caja->share folder was fixed
<clem_> themes got a lot of fixes etc etc..
<zerozero> ahh i was talking about the sharing issues yesterday
<clem_> I wanted to tell you about MDM because when I googled for answers and clues I basically found your threads on the Mint forums :))
<zerozero> its not native in caja (yet)
<clem_> for the sharing issue, I'm not sure it's the same in LMDE, but it's worth a try
<clem_> link /etc/init.d/smb to /etc/init.d/samba
<zerozero> hehe i jumped in into mdm its true
<clem_> mate-shares-admin checks the wrong path..
<clem_> MDM is all fixed in github if people want to compile it in the meantime
<zerozero> well clem_  tks a lot, now save the log, guess i gonna need it a couple times :))
<clem_> :)
<clem_> thanks, good luck ;)