Subject: Re: seg fault on many applets

From: Frank McCormick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:12:14 -0400

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.

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From: Frank McCormick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:20:36 -0400

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
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>   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 :)

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From: Bhasker C V <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:00:28 +0530

Thank you Frank