On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:06:23 +0100 Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> ¡Hola William!
>
> El 2016-11-02 a las 17:32 -0400, William L. DeRieux IV escribió:
> >>> I'm running Cinnamon 3.0.7-2 everything was fine until a recent
update.
> >>> Now clicking on certain items on the cinnamon-panel causes a
crash and
> >>> when running cinnamon --replace from a tty causes a segmentation
fault.
>
> >> Can you try to narrow down the list of upgraded packaged that
caused this?
>
> The list of upgraded packages might be useful. You can obtain this
information
> from the /var/log/dpkg.log* files.
>
> Using snapshots.debian.org, you could downgrade the cinnamon packages
and test
> this again to check if any of the recent changes in cinnamon causes
the issue.
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> "Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out."
> -- Hoare's Law of Large Problems
> Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
Ok, here is an update to this issue.
The initial issue that I had, that prompted this, was that the
cinnamon-panel had become non-responsive and I could not launch any
apps, etc.
I also rebooted to ensure that is wasn't something that would have been
fixed by a reboot.
Adfter rebooting -- the cinnamon panel was still non-responsive -- to a
tty and ran *cinnamon --replace* which crashed (as reported).
I switched to the mate desktop to get around the issue -- at least for
the time being.
The other day I switched back to cinnamon to re-test this and the
cinnamon-panel was functioning correctly.
Oddly, enough running *cinnamon --replace* from a tty still crashes, but
I was able to run it, from a terminal, within cinnamon without issues.
PS: I can't remember what date that I first experienced this -- but it
was a few days ago -- I switched to MATE to get around
it temporarily and I reported the issue a few days later.
I guess the point is that cinnamon seems to be functioning correctly --
even though *cinnamon --replace* can't seem to executed
from a tty (but does not fail if run from within cinnamon).
I'm not sure if this may now be expected behavior...
