xfce4 freezes on exit (David A Thompson)

[David A Thompson]

From [mailing-lists] Xfce Digest, Vol 4, Issue 31

Since the problem of xfce crashing upon exit with RedHat 9 was consistently 
intermittent (!), I waited a while before following up on it. Short answer 
for anyone else having a similar problem: 

as soon as I switched to the CVS version and disabled the 'confirm logout' 
option (thanks, Biju and Bachman for the related suggestions) the problem 
vanished...

Thank you all for taking the time to offer your various suggestions.

Alan

From: David A Thompson <thompson at fresno.edu>
>Reply-To: xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>
>To: xfce at xfce.org
>Subject: xfce4 freezes on exit
>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:19:24 -0700
>
>xfce4 (most recent release, although I experienced this problem 
>intermittently
>with earlier versions) freezes when I shut it down using the 'Exit' option
>from (what I believe is) xfce4-panel.
>
>I'm running it on RedHat 9. This freezing problem occurs when I start up 
>with
>the "startxfce4" script and then use it extensively. It doesn't freeze if I
>exit immediately after starting up via startxfce4. ctrl-alt-backspace 
>doesn't
>kill X once things are (apparently) frozen. It makes it all the way to a
>black, empty screen before freezing. I don't have this problem with xfwm4 
>if
>I just start it up directly using xinit.
>
>Any suggested steps for diagnosing where the problem lies?
>
>Thanks for your time and assistance. Apologies if this is a "dumb-dumb"
>question or has already been answered and I just overlooked the answer.
>

Message: 2
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:10:33 -0600
From: "Collins Richey" <laser186 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: xfce4 freezes on exit
To: xfce at xfce.org
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Are you using an nvidia card? This sounds like an nvidia or other video 
driver problem which has little to do with xfce.

ANSWER: I'm running xfce on a laptop with a Trident CyberBlade i1 AGP card -- 
I
don't believe it is an nvidia card. I'm using the "trident" driver in my
xf86config file. I tried commenting out the direct rendering (dri) module in 
the
xf86config file on the off-chance it was contributing to the problem but I 
still
see the same problem.

--

Collins
xfce4 on 2.6.0-test6 kernel


Message: 5
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:52:03 +0530
From: Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net>
Subject: Re: xfce4 freezes on exit
To: xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>
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This is a new one...

Are you running xfce4-session? Can you send us a log of your X session?

-- b

ANSWER: I'm not running xfce4-session; I'm just using the startxfce4 script 
'out
of the box'. I didn't include a log of a "frozen" X session since I didn't 
notice anything dramatically out of the ordinary in it; neither were
there any unusual items in ~/xsession-errors.

Message: 6
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:55:16 +0200
From: Bachman Kharazmi <bkw at lindesign.se>
Subject: Re: xfce4 freezes on exit
To: xfce list <xfce at xfce.org>
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When I've "confirm logout" enabled it sometimes freeze here for a few seconds 
too... 
I'am not using the confirmation anymore so I get rid of the delays.

/bkw

ANSWER: The freeze I observe lasts for more than "a few seconds". I switched 
to CVS try out the option to 'confirm logout'.