I installed the Ubuntu Maverick packages in Debian Squeeze for a standard workstation and everything works correctly (running gdm3).
Same install on a headless virtual box under Xen -- plenty of memory and disk space.
Symptoms are:
- splash screen shows no graphics
- buttons don't appear, but text is there and they sort of work
- cpu utilization spikes to 100% and it locks, kill stops it
- running the nogtk version I was able to get as far as the assist++ dialog box before full lockup.
I have tried the deb packages for Ubuntu (worked on other machine), compiling latest stable and compiling lastest nightly build -- all have the same result.
It's not a workstation problem -- compile is clean, dependencies met. Openoffice and Mozilla both run flawlessly.
I've tried starting vncserver as both root and another standard user.
Any ideas? Attached is a screen shot after it crunched -- the only error displayed is 'Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0".'
Any error logging?
Thanks!
It looks like something is broken with displaying Images (raster bitmaps). These depend on XRENDER extension (as they are with alpha channel).