[xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 21

[Gary Crosby]

On 27/05/07, xubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
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>    1.  Term crashes after upgrade (Gary Crosby)
>    2. Re:  Term crashes after upgrade (Dax Solomon Umaming)
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> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 08:31:10 -0700
> From: "Gary Crosby" <grcrosby at gmail.com>
> Subject: [xubuntu-users] Term crashes after upgrade
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> Upgrading to 7.04 was a total failure, so I ended up downloading and
> Installing the new OS. Not unusual in and of itself, it is how I have
> had to upgrade for the last three upgrades. Now things work fine on my
> account, which was made during the install. However for my family I
> made new accounts after the install. Now when they open a terminal
> their session crashes and takes them back to the login screen. Any
> ideas out there.
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> gary
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> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:55:38 +0800
> From: Dax Solomon Umaming <knightlust at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Term crashes after upgrade
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> On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:31:10 Gary Crosby wrote:
> > Now when they open a terminal
> > their session crashes and takes them back to the login screen. Any
> > ideas out there.
>
> Gary, I quoted Mr. Jim Campbell here, got it from the OEM Install thread. Hope
> this helps you the way it helped me;
>
> ---
> As for X crashing when you open the terminal, I recommend the following:
>
> To do this, you'll need to boot into an xterm session, so when the login
> screen comes up, click on the Sessions icon, and select Terminal session or
> something similar (I don't have a Xubuntu install with me at the moment).?
>
> * navigate to your /etc/X11 folder and make a backup copy of your xorg.conf
> file.? You can do this by entering:
> cd /etc/X11
> sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf_backup
>
> * edit your xorg.conf file, changing the default depth from 24 to 16.? You can
> do this by entering:
> sudo nano xorg.conf
> ?. . .? then scroll down to the Screen section, and find the DefaultDepth
> option.? Change that number to 16.
>
> *press control-o? (letter "O") to save the file, then press control-x to exit
> the nano text editor.
>
> Then exit from the xterm session, and it should bring you back to the login
> window.? Select an Xfce session from the session button, and proceed to login
> as usual.
>
> I hope this helps!? Sorry it is kind of a non-pretty way to do things, but
> it's hard to tell you to enter these changes into a regular terminal when the
> regular terminal crashes your X session!? I think that this should work,
> though . . .? It's a known issue on older machines, and I've helped 3 or 4
> people to fix their systems using this approach.
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Dax, that was perfect. Worked like a charm. Thank you for the fix.
Sorry for the delay, but I have been away for a while.

gary

gary