Comment 18 for bug 91849

Hi Morgan,

I think that this fix has worked for a few people:

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.
This will bring you into an xterm session - not an xfce4-terminal. It
should work. :)

* use the "cd" command to 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 . . .
Let us know if it doesn't work. Thanks!

Jim

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