tag 503404 + confirmed thanks I see the same exact behavior too:
~ # DISPLAY=:1 gdb awesome GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/awesome (no debugging symbols found) [...] (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] (no debugging symbols found) [...] (no debugging symbols found) [New Thread 0xb77dc6b0 (LWP 15956)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb77dc6b0 (LWP 15956)] 0xb7f520ea in xcb_setup_vendor_end () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (gdb) Cheers, --Seb -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (501, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages awesome depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6.1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libev3 3.43-1 high-performance event loop librar ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.3-1 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro ii libncurses5 5.6+20081025-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxcb-atom1 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-aux0 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-event1 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-icccm1 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-keysyms0 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-property1 0.3.0-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-randr0 1.1-1.1 X C Binding, randr extension ii libxcb-render-util0 0.2.1+git1-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-render0 1.1-1.1 X C Binding, render extension ii libxcb-xinerama0 1.1-1.1 X C Binding, xinerama extension ii libxcb1 1.1-1.1 X C Binding Versions of packages awesome recommends: ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+5 X server utilities awesome suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]