Ihave Mate, Gnome Flashback, and XFCE installed. Today, when starting
up, all three will start, then exit with extreme prejudice. Mate was
doing that before, so, being lazy, I switched to XFCE, and didn't try to
diagnose and solve and fix. But now all are doing it. Also, the virtual
terminals (Alt-Ctrl-F2, etc.) are behaving a bit weirdly, and will not
show a bash prompt.
Oddly, when I rebooted and started in rescue mode, when I changed to
user mode via SU, as in su george, I expected that typing startx, I
might get some error messages. But X works, and LightDM works, and when
I logged into Mate, Mate continued to work, when it hadn't been working
for months.
What do I need to do to discover the problem? Running Sid. I recall a
similar problem for someone else, a segfault-or-other, I think, that I
seem to recall involved deleting a config file. If someone that recalls
that could post a link, it'd be great, or could coach me how to diagnose
and fix, or at least tell me what to Google for...
Thanks
Mark Allums
