Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> writes: > 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
I think that was start_ > > What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The display driver is > nouveau. I am currently using icewm manager instead but would rather use Mate.