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#1 2019-06-03 16:38:14

mid
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XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

I got a problem and I've no clue where to start debugging - I'm using lightdm and xfce4 and when I try to login, it shuts down and restarts. I disabled lightdm with systemctl and tried doing startx by myself, same thing, so it's probably not the dm. It only crashes around 80% of the time, other times it loads fine. Sometimes it doesn't even crash but just freezes, can't even switch TTYs.

I have a log of Xorg.0.log if it helps: http://ix.io/1KP0

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#2 2019-06-03 16:50:39

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

[    77.210] (II) modeset(0): Refusing to try glamor on llvmpipe
[    77.257] (EE) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed

sounds not too good.

Is there any SIGILL in the journalctl for lightm (indicating alack of SSE2 problem)?

What is your graphics card?

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#3 2019-06-03 17:24:05

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

/proc/cpuinfo says that sse2 is supported, if it helps the CPU is an Intel Atom N2600.
lshw says "Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller".

How do I check for Sigill?

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#4 2019-06-05 13:37:41

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

You would see a SSE2 releated error when exetuing 'journalctl -b0 -l' (for the process lightdm or one of the greeters).

'lshw' (package lshw) or 'lspci' (package pciutils) can show you the graphic card.

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#5 2019-06-06 11:59:35

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156327

Do yo get a login prompt, i.e. lightdm?
Because if yes, then nothing is wrong with Xorg.
I usually test XFCE4, so I thinkg it's not a problem there

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#6 2019-06-06 12:52:31

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

What are the contents of /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log?

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#7 2019-06-06 12:54:22

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Re: XFCE4 either crashes the computer, or has a black screen, or works.

Is lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter installed?

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#8 2019-06-06 12:57:53

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