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Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

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Richmond wrote: 
> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I
> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so:
> 
> I closed X down with telinit 3
> I logged in on the console as root
> I ran xinit -- :0
> I switched to a non root user in the xterm window on the display
> I typed export DISPLAY=:0
> I ran mate-session
> X crashed with a segmentation fault
> 
> The backtrace is on the console so I cannot cut and paste it. It says it
> is in Xorg at _start+0x31
> 
> What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The display driver is
> nouveau.

I wouldn't expect that to segfault, but I also wouldn't expect
it to work -- you did not authorize your non-root user to run in
that X session.

Try this:

As your non-root user, write a .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
xterm &
exec mate-session

and then run

startx

Tell us what happens then. If it crashes, let us see your
/etc/apt/sources.list and anything in sources.list.d/

-dsr-

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Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 14:10 +0200
  Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-05 14:30 +0200
    Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 14:30 +0200
      Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 17:00 +0200
        Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-05 17:20 +0200
        Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-05-05 17:30 +0200
          Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 20:00 +0200
            Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-05-05 20:20 +0200
    Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 16:20 +0200
      Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-05 16:50 +0200
        Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 17:30 +0200
    Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 16:30 +0200
  Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-05-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-05-06 05:40 +0200

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