Re: seg fault on many applets

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 04/10/16 11:15 AM, Bhasker C V wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> About mate again.
> As per this https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/45 is says that ebnd of
> Sept the packages must get fixed.
> I however still find it difficult to run caja which is primary
> file/folder manager.
> and many other applets too are crashing.
> Is there any schedule update which I can look forward to ?
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Frank McCormick
> <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > On 23/09/16 07:30 AM, Bhasker C V wrote:
> > > Thank you Frank
> > > I am doing a daily update on my debian system in a hope some day it
> > > will pickup the fix and also under a fear that every update may bring
> > > some other disastrous consequence.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Frank McCormick
> > > <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> > > > On 20/09/16 09:32 PM, Bhasker C V wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >  I am on
> > > > > $ lsb_release -a
> > > > > No LSB modules are available.
> > > > > Distributor ID:    Debian
> > > > > Description:    Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
> > > > > Release:    testing
> > > > > Codename:    stretch
> > > > >
> > > > > Many of my applets (mate) are doing an sigsevg after an update)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [ 1147.639760] mate-power-mana[5487]: segfault at ff6e3ef8 ip
> > > > > 00000000f63afadb sp 00000000ff6e3ee0 error 6 in
> > > > > libc-2.23.so[f637b000+1ad000]
> > > > > [ 1171.935436] caja[3057]: segfault at ff1c6fa8 ip 00000000f60eaadb sp
> > > > > 00000000ff1c6f90 error 6 in libc-2.23.so[f60b6000+1ad000]
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anything to be setup locally or anything missing which is
> > > > > causing this SIGSEGV ?  I am unable to even use the caja file manager.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   The mate desktop on Stretch/Sid is completely borked at the moment. It
> > > > was
> > > > caused by the latest update to GTK 3.0. Fixed newer versions of
> > > > everything
> > > > are expected to be released from mate's GIT repository soon but it may
> > > > take
> > > > a little while before they make it into Debian. A temporary fix is to
> > > > downgrade GTK but that may be more trouble
> > > > than it's worth.

> >    I'm told (take it for what's it worth) that the Mate desktop will be
> > updated to 1.16 by the end of the month. I too are waiting anxiously :)

    I received mail today from the Mate maintainer indicating the 
packages have been updated to 1.16. They should pop up in updates in a
day or two.