Re: GTK crashing X?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 10:23:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote:

> Well, all I did was netinstall stable with xfce, log in once,
> add testing repos, and dist-upgrade. I could just try directly
> netinstalling testing, and if it's broken out of the box then
> it's almost certainly a bug, right?

You could try:

1. Install without choosing Xfce. Untick the desktop item when asked to
   select software.

2. You'll boot into a tty. Login and and change sources.lst to "jessie".

3. Update, upgrade and dist-upgrade.

4. Reboot. Login and

	apt-get task-xfce-desktop

   or

	apt-get xfce4 lightdm

   The first gives you what d-i gives you. The second has fewer packages
   but is fine. I'd choose the latter.

5. Reboot.

6. Hopefully report success. :)