On 06/22/2017 12:59 PM, stan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:46:45 -0400 > Kryptxy <kryptxy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have been facing an issue with lightdm-gtk since I installed Fedora >> 25 (mate desktop) in my system. >> >> When I boot system and try login for the first time, lightdm-gtk >> segfaults and screen goes blacks for a second or so. Then lightdm-gtk >> re-appears asking for login credentials again. The second time I >> enter credentials, login is successful. >> >> dmesg - lightdm-gtk-gre[1143]: segfault at 10 ip 00007fa3023fbf70 sp >> 00007ffcf876f828 error 4 in libcairo.so.2.11400.8[7fa30238e000+122000] >> >> I filed a bug for same. >> >> Here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463847 >> >> Did anyone else had this issue? Is there a workaround for the same? >> It's really annoying to enter login credentials 2 times everytime >> when system boots. > > I can't help with the issue since I don't use that combination, but > have you tried another greeter? I see one called marco for mate in the > repositories. You could also try booting to another desktop to see if > the failure is specific to mate. > > I wonder if you are missing a dependency that is not specified properly > for dnf - a packaging error, in other words. Maybe something that > lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on is missing one of its dependencies. Or > maybe there is a configuration option missing that the first run > creates, so that the second one can complete. > > Finally, the first thing I thought of when I saw your description of > the error was an application capturing login credentials. It seems > unlikely, but it fits the profile. Try reinstalling the package from > the repositiories. That has the added benefit of fixing any possible > bad bits on your hard drive, that could also cause this error. You might try reinstalling cairo (which is a 2D graphics library). The segfault is coming from libcairo. The latest I have on F25 is cairo-1.14.8-1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If you are what you eat, then I'm fast, cheap and greasy! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
