On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:42:43 -0700 Dima Kogan <d...@secretsauce.net> wrote:
> Let's move this back to the bug list. > > Thanks for the debugging traces. I didn't see any smoking gun, but > there're things I'd like to follow-up on to isolate the issue and then > to hopefully allow me to reproduce it. > > 1. You have a customized gtk configuration that uses a theme no longer > in Debian. Can you please try to rename your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to > something else to see if that makes the crash go away? I'm guessing > this doesn't matter, but checking would be good. No change. > > 2. The crash makes me suspect that something related to graphics is at > fault. You have a radeon graphics card of some sort it looks like, > which could explain why I can't reproduce (my hardware is > different). How old/new is your graphics drivers? Can you try to run > pcb without hardware acceleration? You can do this with > > LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true pcb-gtk Yes, that fixes it. A quick test suggests it is running OK. > > Also please try > > LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=true pcb-gtk > No, still crashes. > Hopefully one of these resolves the crash, which would tell us where > to look next. > > Thanks! OK, it does look like the graphics driver, then. I don't play games, so I've never worried about it, and it looks like I'm using the xserver-xorg-video-radeon driver. firmware-amd-graphics is installed. Should I try getting hold of the AMD binary driver? It's onboard graphics on a Gigabyte MB, about seven years old. Best regards, Joe
