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  1. Bug #246585
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 246585

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 246585] Re: GTK applications crashing reproducibly when using vesa

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:57:21PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Interesting, I've been able to reproduce everything in comment #12, and
> I'm seeing the gdm greeter crash, but not the gnome-terminal crash.

You need to click on a menu to get gnome-terminal to crash (see the original
report).

> Also, I'm not seeing anything in /var/crash (do I need to do something
> to switch apport on?)

Yes, /etc/default/apport.

> 2. Set driver to "vesa" in xorg.conf, restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace)
> + Displays greeter application crashing error dialog
> + Can switch to a tty and login as root okay
> + From tty, I get an error when importing gtk that display couldn't be opened
> + Clicking on the greeter error dialog, screen flickers, and this time import gtk works from the tty
> + gtk.gdk.screen_get_default().get_n_monitors() presents an error 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_n_monitors'

That's odd; I get an otherwise valid return of 0. Did you remember to set
DISPLAY in the tty session?

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 - mdz