Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

From	Richmond <richmond@criptext.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686
Date	2021-05-05 14:10 +0200
Message-ID	<CbovL-7rb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	Frantic

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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.

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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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