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-
