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Started by guiverc, July 02, 2014, 05:44:47 PM

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July 02, 2014, 05:44:47 PM Last Edit: July 02, 2014, 05:48:50 PM by guiverc
System Thinkpad T42p (so old intel centrino; 2gb dRAM)  Also in docking station; did not try external to it.

I've written LXDE & XFCE iso's to DVDR in attempts to try (hoping to install) on my Thinkpad t42p...  (currently has an old version of mint I was hoping to replace with Sparky; also openSuSE 13.1 in another partition)

Both LIVE dvd's boot to initial menu; on selecting 'english' they boot but seconds after gui displays (only part of background behind conky; conky detail, top panel & briefly cairo|dock displays before screen goes dark & nothing for a long period (then it repeats gui  brief appearance).

From tty - dmesg shows  (refer later for /var/log/messages portion)

[  455.966602] lxpolkit[2423]: segfault at a ip b69fe1f1 sp bf9b6090 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b698a000+1a5000]
[  541.891173] lxpolkit[2739]: segfault at a ip b69f21f1 sp bfe82ce0 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b697e000+1a5000]
[  632.354640] lxpolkit[3089]: segfault at a ip b69f01f1 sp bfc1e8f0 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b697c000+1a5000]
[  722.449647] lxpolkit[3433]: segfault at a ip b69751f1 sp bfda8ce0 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b6901000+1a5000]
[  812.828685] lxpolkit[3775]: segfault at a ip b6a231f1 sp bf97b3c0 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b69af000+1a5000]

Note: Same occurs with both XFCE & LXDE i486 iso's.

Both iso's md5sum was valid; and they both boot up on another more modern desktop; but I downloaded the i486 version as I want it on the T42p.

Anyone got clues - or does Sparky not like my old t42p laptop??

(looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log - accelerated display; thinkpad buttons recognized, etc.  Only thing I noted not working was while it recognized wireless card & nic - it didn't get an IP address using dhcp (for nic) where I expected it to - maybe significant to issue, maybe not.)

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I was unable to post here initially; so the aforementioned text was pasted on the g+ SparkyLinux group; I was asked about .xsession-errors which contained no errors or anything of help.

The following is the /var/log/messages (only portion around errors)
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Jul  1 16:39:17 localhost org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[11129]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Jul  1 16:39:17 localhost org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[11129]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul  1 16:39:44 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11129]: (process:11170): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitorDaemon-WARNING **: monitor says it's not supported
Jul  1 16:40:48 localhost org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[11223]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Jul  1 16:40:48 localhost org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[11223]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul  1 16:40:59 localhost org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[11223]: (process:11272): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitorDaemon-WARNING **: monitor says it's not supported
Jul  1 16:41:04 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
Jul  1 16:41:04 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Jul  1 16:41:12 localhost kernel: [ 1926.344942] lxpolkit[11298]: segfault at a ip b69961f1 sp bfed6f20 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[b6922000+1a5000]
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: Starting blueman-mechanism
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: loading Config
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: loading Network
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: loading Ppp
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: loading RfKill
Jul  1 16:41:41 localhost org.blueman.Mechanism[1289]: Exiting
-- end of paste  (it just repeats with different times)

Because the gui keeps restarting; using the TTY is painful as it keeps switching to gui post-restart.
I manually gave machine IP address; then was able to access the attached LAN which was helpful (given I use NFS I loved having the nfs-common available at start!). However was unable to go outside; I looked in /etc/resolv.conf & it was empty of 'nameserver' lines - so added some. Still didn't go outside.

Really was trying to enable openssh-server (so I could SSH in & not be constantly pissed off as screen goes black & resets to gui & I lose tty). I didn't fix this; though this issue is minor (my mistake I bet)



Any clues as to why LIVE sessions (XFCE & LXDE) are not working on my Thinkpad T42p, help appreciated.

edit: PS: only thing I did notice in dmesg file; was linux reported my t42p's firmware was not the latest !!
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