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Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

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Richmond wrote: 
> Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:
> 
> > 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:
...
> >> 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.
> 
> It crashed. The errors on the console are several fatal errors from
> mate-panel, marco, mate-session, and xterm. The xorg log shows a
> segmentation fault but I cannot be sure when it happened as the date is
> in an inhuman format.
> 
> I'll bet it is to do with desktop effects.
> 
> Here is the sources.list. There is nothing in sources.d. I don't

Good, we're making progress. Time to chase down Greg's idea,
which is that you have driver problems.

Answer his questions about lspci and such, and check for the
installation of

firmware-misc-nonfree

You probably need that for your graphics card, and it probably
needs a full reboot after.

-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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