On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been > running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable > (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm worked, > xfce worked). Did a dist-upgrade to testing (also tried unstable), and now
Did you downgrade to testing from unstable? > neither lightdm nor xfce works (lightdm goes into an endless crash loop, > xfce sends me back to the login screen). I can manually start an X server, > and it can display basic programs like xclock fine. But as soon as I start a > GTK application (or at least I think it's GTK causing the problem), X > crashes with "Segmentation fault at address 0xc" "Fatal server error: Caught > signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting". There's nothing in the log > immediately before the error other than the backtrace. > > There doesn't appear to be a problem with any of those components > individually, since xfce and individual applications will both run perfectly > fine if I display them on another machine's X, so I'm not even sure what to > file a bug under. I'd check the package versions from what you say above about trying stable unstable and testing. Is the system in a sane state? i.e. does an apt-get update/upgrade occur without issue? Just as an aside, if stable was working fine why did you upgrade? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140630111224.GB19589@tal
