[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000212]: Session terminates abnormally when session manager tries to reload systray app

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Tue Jun 8 11:42:38 CEST 2004


A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000212
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Reporter:                   nick_08150
Handler:                    bmeurer
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000212
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2004-06-01 11:12 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-06-08 09:42 GMT
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Summary:                    Session terminates abnormally when session manager tries to reload systray app
Description: 
When an application is "running" in the systray (e.g. kxkb) at logout and
the session manager (CVS20040601) tries to restart it at next login, the
session won't start up but terminates (although at a very late state) and
you get back to the login screen. This seems to be the case with any
systray app, so I presume it's a general xfce4-session bug.
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 bmeurer - 2004-06-01 15:41 GMT 
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Ok, weird bug, but easy to fix. The problem is that once the first KDE
application is started, it will run kdeinit (and a bunch of other daemons)
which will also connect to the session manager, though they were not
explicitly started by the sm. This confused xfce4-session and caused a
segfault. Its fixed now, though not yet committed, cause my sandbox is
kind of broken ATM.

Anyway, this is something about KDE thats really annoying. It can cause
several other problems if the kdeinit process itself is managed by the
session manager. Therefore I added the KDE compatibility to xfce4-session
to avoid such problems. Please enable "Launch KDE services on startup" if
you plan to use KDE applications.

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-01 16:00 GMT 
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Committed, should be fixed now.

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-01 17:48 GMT 
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Ok, Nick, I need your help tracking the problem:

Please set the environment variable XFSM_VERBOSE prior to starting
xfce4-session. Then after the session manager crashed, append the file
~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log to this bug report, so I can have a look at
it. In addition, it'd be helpful if you could compile xfce4-session with
debugging enabled (--enable-debug=full) and send me the backtrace of the
core dump.

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-01 21:20 GMT 
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Hi Benedikt,

sorry I've been so little verbose last time.
The latest CVS version didn't compile out of the box with
--enable-debug=full,
I had to comment out an unused variable (maybe this is intended).
Nevertheless, here comes the output in .xfce4-session.verbose-log, with
--enable-debug=full enabled. 
But I'm afraid the problem is more subtle. I tried session management with
a kde systray app (kxkb) and the formerly mentioned qt-only app (pgcalc2).
When I start kxkb with xfce4 running, the panel freezes/crashes. Hm, well.
I have to kill -s 9 it to restart the panel. After restarting it manually,
kxkb comes up normally, the panel is fully functional. But when I login
next time, the session seems to actually crash, the "Your session has
lasted less than 10 seconds..." message appears.
With pgcalc2 the behaviour is just as I described it in the first bug
report: the "crash" appears very late in the startup process, just when
the session-manager background disappears (so maybe this problem is not
related to xfce4-session only).
Could you please tell my where xfce4-session core-dumps?

### .xfce4-session.verbose-log with kxbd -- start

Session "Default" loaded successfully.

Manager startup continues [Previous Id = None]

ICE connection fd = 6, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 6, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfwm4
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30051
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 20

ICE connection fd = 7, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 7, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xftaskbar4
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30054
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 30

ICE connection fd = 8, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 8, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfdesktop
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30056
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 35

ICE connection fd = 9, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 9, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfce4-panel
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30058
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 40

ICE connection fd = 10, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 10, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id = None]

### .xfce4-session.verbose-log with kxbd -- end








### .xfce4-session.verbose-log with pgcalc2 -- start

Session "Default" loaded successfully.

Manager startup continues [Previous Id = None]

ICE connection fd = 6, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 6, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061000000025820000, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfwm4
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30592
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 20

ICE connection fd = 7, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 7, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061100000025820002, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xftaskbar4
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30595
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 30

ICE connection fd = 8, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 8, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612061200000025820003, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfdesktop
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30597
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 35

ICE connection fd = 9, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 9, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002]

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612328500000295930002, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 6]
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xfce4-panel
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  RestartStyleHint
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 0
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30599
   Name:  CurrentDirectory
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: /home/narend
   Name:  _GSM_Priority
   Type:  CARD8
   Value: 40

ICE connection fd = 10, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 10, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612363100000301090000]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612363100000301090000]

ICE connection fd = 11, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 11, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612277400000284950002]

Manager startup continues [Previous Id =
11c0a80023000108612277400000284950002]

Manager finished startup, entering IDLE mode now

Client Id = 11c0a80023000108612277400000284950002, received SET PROPERTIES
[Num props = 5]
   Name:  CloneCommand
   Type:  LISTofARRAY8
   Name:  Program
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: xterm
   Name:  RestartCommand
   Type:  LISTofARRAY8
   Name:  UserID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: narend
   Name:  ProcessID
   Type:  ARRAY8
   Value: 30604

ICE connection fd = 12, received NEW CLIENT

ICE connection fd = 12, received REGISTER CLIENT [Previous Id = None]


### .xfce4-session.verbose-log with pgcalc2 -- end

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-05 12:36 GMT 
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hm, the log looks ok, except for xterm, but xterm is known to be buggy with
session management. xfce4-session dumps a core file to the directory it
was started from (usually your home directory). You may have to rise the
core file limit first (ulimit -c unlimited for sh/ksh/zsh).

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-05 13:49 GMT 
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Oh, and btw. wheres this unused variable?

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-05 22:52 GMT 
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I compiled the latest CVS, and in version 4.1.8 of xfce4-session at least
the "unused variable" thing has vanished. Nevertheless, the behaviour is
very unpredictable. First, the panel crashes/freezes when I start kxkb
during an xfce4 session, but that I should rather report as a panel bug I
guess.
But I can't really reproduce the xfce-session "crash" every time. There is
no core dump, so xfce4-session doesn't actually seem to crash. Attached
please find the output when starting xfce4 manually from the console.
There are some parts missing (mainly qt/kde output if I remember
correctly), but I wasn't able to reproduce the exact same output again. I
started xfce4 via startxfce4 several times in a row, and since I presume
the information in .cache/sessions/xfce4-session-... didn't change, I
expected xfce4-session to behave the same at every startup. As a matter of
fact, it didn't. It actually started up normally one time, with the
systray app kxkb running, but the panel was frozen.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I guess there are a few things
interacting making this hard to track. It's very late right now, I will be
on it again tomorrow or next week and try to find out more.

Nick.




Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-14.ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux fred.localdomain 2.6.5-1.358
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
i686
Build Date: 07 May 2004
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com

        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7))
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sa
t May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jun  6 00:18:11 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
xfce4-session: Session Manager running in verbose mode.
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 34208 hend: 34320 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1050 vend: 1053 vttl: 1066 flags:
-2147483648
** Message: xfwm4: Workspace count not set, using rc value: 6

-- snip --

(xftaskbar4:31141): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xftaskbar4:31141): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
manager.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 31143, errno = 0
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 31145, errno = 0
xscreensaver: SIGHUP received: restarting...
xscreensaver: running as narend/narend (501/501)

GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 34208 hend: 34320 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1050 vend: 1053 vttl: 1066 flags:
-2147483648
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
The application 'xfce-mcs-manager' lost its connection to the display
:0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
xfwm4: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
kded: Fatal IO error: client killed

waiting for X server to shut down X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit
kill or
server shutdown).

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-06 07:59 GMT 
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Please look at the messages you "-- snip --"ed, there should be atleast one
message from xfce4-session.

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-07 14:02 GMT 
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Here comes the full output. For comparison I attached two versions, one of
a login with kxkb to be started (leads to "crash"), and one of a "sane"
session start (without kxkb).

## Crash output -- start

/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-14.ELsmp i686 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: Linux pc-narend.admin.frm2 2.6.5-1.358
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
i686
Build Date: 07 May 2004
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7))
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jun  7 15:38:13 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 34208 hend: 34320 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1050 vend: 1053 vttl: 1066 flags:
-2147483648
** Message: xfwm4: Workspace count not set, using rc value: 6

(xfce4-panel:13299): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name


(xfce4-panel:13299): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed

(xfce4-panel:13299): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed
** Message: xfce4-panel: Successfully started with session management

(xfdesktop:13297): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name

QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...

(xfwm4:13293): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xfwm4:13293): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager.

(xfce4-panel:13299): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xfce4-panel:13299): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
manager.

(xftaskbar4:13295): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xftaskbar4:13295): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
manager.
DCOP aborting while waiting for answer from 'kxkb'
xscreensaver: SIGHUP received: restarting...
xscreensaver: running as narend/narend (501/501)

The application 'xfwm4' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
The application 'xfce4-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
in xkb_refresh_gui: text
in set_new_locale: tmp is not null
in xkb_refresh_gui: image
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
The application 'xfce-mcs-manager' lost its connection to the display
:0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
kded: Fatal IO error: client killed


waiting for X server to shut down XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection
reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"

      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


## Crash output -- end





## Sane output -- start

/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-14.ELsmp i686 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: Linux pc-narend.admin.frm2 2.6.5-1.358
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
i686
Build Date: 07 May 2004
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7))
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jun  7 15:40:51 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 34208 hend: 34320 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1050 vend: 1053 vttl: 1066 flags:
-2147483648
** Message: xfwm4: Workspace count not set, using rc value: 6

(xfce4-panel:13413): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name

/usr/local/sunbird/MozillaSunbird-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
xscreensaver: no keyboard or mouse data in /proc/interrupts?

(xfce4-panel:13413): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed

(xfce4-panel:13413): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed
** Message: xfce4-panel: Successfully started with session management

(xfdesktop:13411): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name

Error: No running window found.
PING ... 56(84) bytes of data.

--- ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.530/0.541/0.552/0.011 ms, pipe 2
Error: No running window found.
Error: No running window found.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
xscreensaver: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 0: for window 0x1400025 (Mozilla / calendarMainWindow)
xscreensaver: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "WM_CHANGE_STATE" received
xscreensaver: 0: for window 0x1400025 (Mozilla / calendarMainWindow)

## Sane output -- end

edited on: 06-07 14:02

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-07 14:03 GMT 
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It's me again. Just to show that it's not a pure kde related issue, here
another output with the qt-only systray app pgcalc2, which also leads to a
crash.


/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server


Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-14.ELsmp i686 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: Linux pc-narend.admin.frm2 2.6.5-1.358
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
i686
Build Date: 07 May 2004
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile at bugs.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7))
http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jun  7 15:50:11 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 34208 hend: 34320 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1050 vend: 1053 vttl: 1066 flags:
-2147483648
** Message: xfwm4: Workspace count not set, using rc value: 6
xscreensaver: no keyboard or mouse data in /proc/interrupts?

(xfce4-panel:13688): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name


(xfce4-panel:13688): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed

(xfce4-panel:13688): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkbox.c: line 374
(gtk_box_pack_start): assertion `child->parent == NULL' failed
** Message: xfce4-panel: Successfully started with session management

(xfdesktop:13686): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name

QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
/usr/local/sunbird/MozillaSunbird-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
PING ... 56(84) bytes of data.

--- ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.537/0.654/0.772/0.120 ms, pipe 2
Error: No running window found.

(xfwm4:13682): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xfwm4:13682): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager.

(xfce4-panel:13688): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xfce4-panel:13688): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
manager.

(xftaskbar4:13684): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error

(xftaskbar4:13684): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
manager.
xscreensaver: SIGHUP received: restarting...
xscreensaver: running as narend/narend (501/501)

The application 'xfce-mcs-manager' lost its connection to the display
:0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.


waiting for X server to shut down kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-13698' to 'kded'
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15

edited on: 06-07 14:03

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-07 15:20 GMT 
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"kbuildsycoca running..." <- your "qt-only systray app" starts kdeinit, so
its not really what I'd call QT-only :-)

Looking at the output, I can see that you disabled KDE compatibility.
Please enable KDE compatibility and try again.

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-07 15:56 GMT 
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I was pretty sure that this was qt-only, but I'll check again... Hm, looks
like you're right; there is a windows version, too, that is maybe the
reason why I assumed it doesn't use kde.
Nevertheless, I personally don't want to use kde or kdeinit. So I don't
want to enable KDE compatibility. That's why I use xfce4 ;-).
But for example on other computers I maintain it would be good if there
was the possiblilty to run kde-apps along with a working xfce4-session.
You never know what an arbitrary user might do or what his/her xfce
settings look like ;-). 
And this app pgcalc2 is a nice thing to have but I only start it once in a
time, and if I forget to close it at xfce logout, I don't want to edit the
session file to be able to login again. But ok, since this is the unstable
branch, I can of course deinstall xfce4-session for now.
I will look for a qt/kde-free systray app and try that. Don't you
experience a similar behaviour?

edited on: 06-07 15:55

edited on: 06-07 15:56

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-07 16:48 GMT 
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Theres no way to run KDE apps in Xfce w/o enabling KDE compatibility. If
you want to run KDE apps, enable KDE compatibility, thats the deal. Else
you are garantied to experience all kinds of problems (caused by KDE
btw.).

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-07 18:40 GMT 
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I know that, I didn't say I wanted to run kde apps without starting the kde
machinery. That is unavoidable (unfortunately), I just said that I might
run kde apps from time to time. I don't like to start the whole KDE stuff
by default. But it's not acceptable that the session manager crashes if a
user option is not set "correctly". Xfce4 should be ready for every
bonehead user maneuver.
So what are you going to do about it? It can't be that xfce4-session does
not start up only because the user left a kde app open at logout without
having the KDE compatibility option set (which might happen in actual
practice).

edited on: 06-07 18:40

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-07 19:20 GMT 
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Honestly, I've already tested to run KDE apps w/o enabling the KDE compat,
and it worked so far (not taking into account the usual KDE oddities).
I'll try to investigate into this further, but nevertheless: A user that
runs KDE apps (no matter if he/she leaves the apps open on logout or not)
_should_ enable KDE compat, thats what KDE compat is for! And btw. KDE
compat does not "start the whole KDE stuff", it does only start the basic
services and does some vital things for KDE, like setting SETTING_MANAGER
for the klauncher service and so on.

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-07 20:11 GMT 
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> Honestly, I've already tested to run KDE apps w/o enabling the KDE
compat, and
> it worked so far (not taking into account the usual KDE oddities). 

Well, xfce4-session should have a failsafe plan for such oddities (e.g.
just not starting the app).

> I'll try to 
> investigate into this further, but nevertheless: A user that runs KDE
apps (no 
> matter if he/she leaves the apps open on logout or not) _should_ enable
KDE 
> compat, thats what KDE compat is for!

I disagree. As far as I can see, KDE compat starts the same services
(dcopserver, kded, klauncher, kaccess, etc.) which are started when you
run a kde app. Only the app comes up faster if you have launched them at
startup, ok. But it slows down login significantly and causes a larger
memory footprint. That does matter (at least for me) when you're sometimes
forced to get along with underpowered hardware (in which case xfce4 is a
nice compromise between features and speed/memusage).
Btw. I tested KDE compat and found that kded and - strange enough - kxkb
(although not listed in the xfce4-session-xxx:0 file) are started in the
"foreground", means they appear in the taskbar as normal apps.

> And btw. KDE compat does not "start the 
> whole KDE stuff", it does only start the basic services and does some
vital 
> things for KDE, like setting SETTING_MANAGER for the klauncher service
and so on.

And I don't see why those vital things are really vital for only using a
simple kde application. In most cases you don't need interprocess
communication or whatever, I'm normally happy if the app communicates
correctly with me. But afaik this is an intensively discussed topic in the
KDE community, and the behaviour might vanish in a future version (or made
optional). Anyway, that's really a KDE oddity and somewhat off-topic here
;-)

edited on: 06-07 20:11

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 bmeurer - 2004-06-08 08:29 GMT 
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I'm working on such a plan, but its non trivial! Don't treat it like a
simple problem, cause if it were a simple problem, I'd already fixed it.

KDE compat fires up kdeinit, as it would be fired when you start a kde
app, with an important difference: kdeinit _isn't_ handled in the session!
This is the way session management "works" in KDE and thats how KDE apps
expect it to be. Don't blame KDE bugs/problems on xfce.

And keep in mind: Xfce is fast and what some people would call
"bloat-free". If we continue adding work-arounds for every single broken
app, we end up as "Gnome/KDE-ng". There is already a workaround for KDE
apps (-> KDE compat) and it is possible that I won't add another
work-around (if it turns out to be a KDE problem that you describe).

If you don't want KDE compat because of the longer startup time, you have
to find yourself another workaround, e.g. unset SESSION_MANAGER env
variable before running KDE apps. Else the rule of thumb remains: "If you
want to run KDE apps, enable KDE compat. If you dislike the longer
startup-time and increased memory footprint, don't run KDE apps!"

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 nick_08150 - 2004-06-08 09:42 GMT 
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I'd like to say one more thing in this thread because I guess you get me
wrong: I'm not solely looking for my personal benefit by reporting bugs
here. I know how to get my xfce session up and running and what to do if
things break. But the average user will be stuck if xfce4 is not coming
up, he/she won't know what files to edit/delete. You have some sort of KDE
integration in xfce already since in the desktop menu most kde apps show
up and users will click them.

So all I'm proposing is that xfce should be ready if a users chooses to
fire up a KDE app and didn't close it at logout time. To prevent xfce from
not starting up at all is not a workaround in my eyes. If this is a
KDE-related problem, then xfce has a problem to deal with. At least it
should be able to ignore broken apps (whether they're KDE or GNOME or
whatever) and start up without them.

You're doing great work and I'm just trying to help a little. And since
I'm coding myself, saying that this issue is trivial was certainly not my
intent.

Keep pluggin'!



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