*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 91849 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91849
As a workaround for the time being, you may want to try this: As for X crashing when you open the terminal, I recommend the following: To do this, you'll need to boot into an xterm session, so when the login screen comes up, click on the Sessions icon, and select Terminal session or something similar (I don't have a Xubuntu install with me at the moment). * navigate to your /etc/X11 folder and make a backup copy of your xorg.conf file. You can do this by entering: cd /etc/X11 sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf_backup * edit your xorg.conf file, changing the default depth from 24 to 16. You can do this by entering: sudo nano xorg.conf . . . then scroll down to the Screen section, and find the DefaultDepth option. Change that number to 16. *press control-o (letter "O") to save the file, then press control-x to exit the nano text editor. Then exit from the xterm session, and it should bring you back to the login window. Select an Xfce session from the session button, and proceed to login as usual. I hope this helps! Sorry it is kind of a non-pretty way to do things, but it's hard to tell you to enter these changes into a regular terminal when the regular terminal crashes your X session! I think that this should work, though . . . It's a known issue on older machines, and I've helped 3 or 4 people to fix their systems using this approach. -------------------------- this is taken from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+question/7143 (i copied the solution from the bottom of the page.) -- opening the gnome terminal closes the session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs