On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:32:18AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:59:26PM -0700, Roger Koehler wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Douglas R. Reno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Roger Koehler <
> [email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> It crashes for me, too, with the latest xorg-server. If I go back to
> > > >> the previous version of xorg-server and libXfont, it works.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I don't have xorg-server-1.19 on my workstation, I'm still at
> 1.18.x. I do
> > > > have the latest libXfont though.
> > >
> > > That may be the issue. Try libXfont 1.5.2.
> > I guess you meant "try libXfont-1.5.1 ?"  The new font lib is
> > libXfont2.
> >
> > I assume both need to be old - with 1.5.1 and 1.19.0 it is still
> > broken for me.
> >
> > Raised upstream at https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/842/
> >
> I haven't made any progress on this.  According to upstream, lxdm
> doesn't reference libXfont, and it works on fedora25 with
> libXfont-1.5.2 and xorg-server-1.19.0.
>
> The segfault is after glibc seems to think my locale is
> ANSI_X3.4-1968 and failing to convert the UTF-8 message.  Root's
> locale when running lxdm via gdb was en_GB.UTF-8.
>
> Fedora are using lxdm-git : I tried that but it too segfaulted for
> me - I didn't bother to look at a bt for the moment, so I guess it
> might be different.
>
> I'm starting to wonder if something in current glibc broke this,
> but basically I'm flailing around and trying to clutch at straws.
>
> If I can't make any progress in the next few days, I guess I'd
> better raise a BLFS ticket asserting that this is broken.
>
>
Ken,

I'll have to build another DE that uses D-Bus when doing GNOME (and for
some other stuff).

Do you want me to build LXDM to round a complete LXDE installation and
report back to you ASAP?
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