Two trixie bugs, one possibly a graphics bug
I run XFCE, and with it xfce4-terminal. On an elderly laptop, when I try
to launch it from the main menu (Applications -> Terminal Emulator), I
get a pop-up window which informs me "Failed to execute default
Terminal Emulator. Input/output error."
The file /usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal-emulator.desktop has
this line:
Exec=exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator
When I run that command from an open terminal window, I get:
charles@jhegaala:~$ exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator
charles@jhegaala:~$ E [charvdev.cc: 47] Error: Compiling fragment
shader: 0:12(10): error: GLSL ES 3.10 is not supported. Supported
versions are: 1.00 ES, and 3.00 ES
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::system_error'
what(): Resource deadlock avoided
charles@jhegaala:~$
I can launch a terminal from a different menu entry, Applications ->
System -> Xfce Terminal. That works.
Following the chain of symlinks, x-terminal-emulator points to zutty.
galternatives shows it as pointing to /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
(!!) with zutty as the one other option. So I used galternatives first
to change it to zutty, then back to xfce4-terminal.wrapper. That took:
the symlinks now agree with galternatives. That done, the main menu
(Applications -> Terminal Emulator) now works.
zutty, however, does not. It produces the same error message, but not
the popup.
The computer in question is my usually trusty Lenovo T-520. Video card
is:
root@jhegaala:~# lspci -vs :2
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T520
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27, IOMMU group 0
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 6000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
root@jhegaala:~#
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