On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:30 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.
Could be the kernel. I just rebuilt my system with all the latest (SVN) packages except for the kernel. I built with linux 3.16.39, and lxdm works fine. I am on an intel x86_64 laptop. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
