On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:15:03AM -0700, Paul Anzel wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm currently running Debian Stretch* and ran the usual apt-get > update/upgrade yesterday. Subsequently, when I tried rebooting my > machine Cinnamon keeps on crashing, giving me a prompt to go into > Fallback mode (and if I tell it to restart Cinnamon, it just keeps on > giving me the prompt again and again). >
AIUI, Cinnamon will drop to fallback mode if it's unable to use the 3D rendering capabilities of your graphics card. So, I'd look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if there are any Warnings (WW) or Errors (EE). > I tried uninstalling Cinnamon and then reinstalling it, and the problem > persists. > > Is anyone else having this problem? Do I just need to wait a few weeks > for the next upgrade (and try some other GUI), or is there something > else I can do? This being testing, if it IS a broken package, the fix could appear any time from a few hours later (when the fix is obvious) to a few months (when it's a fiddly one and the developer doesn't have enough tuits). > > Thanks for the advice, > Paul > > *I realize upgrading to Testing this early may have been a foolish choice. > > -- > Paul Anzel > Graduate Student in Applied Physics > California Institute of Technology > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55785477.3060...@caltech.edu > -- For more information, please reread.
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