X server already running? no session manager?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

These are information messages. Nothing wrong about this.

** Message: cannot connect to session manager

This is because you are not running a session manager. xfce4-session is
still in CVS and was not part of the release.

** Message: xfdesktop: Running w/out session manager

Idem.

> the second prob. is that when xfce starts, there are 2 instances 
> of /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/xfce4/xinitrc listed in ps aux. 
> i can kill the second one, but what is calling it up? is that possibly 
> related to the message about another X server running, when afaik none is? 

How do you start your session? from a display manager such as xdm, kdm
or gdm or from a console?

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:23, synaptical wrote:
> hi, i'm new to xfce and this list, and i'm having a couple of problems. 
> 
> the first one is that when i log out, i see some error messages from when xfce started:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display: 0
> 
> ** Message: cannot connect to session manager
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: Running without session manager
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: [a few here about all the modules that are loading]
> ** Message: xfdesktop: Running w/out session manager
> (then more modules loading, etc. -- it looks like all of them in fact).
> 
> so, where is the session manager? why isn't it loading? i definitely installed all the packages, but for some reason it won't load. 
> 
> the second prob. is that when xfce starts, there are 2 instances of /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/xfce4/xinitrc listed in ps aux. i can kill the second one, but what is calling it up? is that possibly related to the message about another X server running, when afaik none is? 
> 
> these problems started after i think my system got partially corrupted (or possibly hacked) by some bad P2P software -- something to do with "Qt" maybe (?), and the owner/permissions of /usr/local/etc somehow got changed to "daemon" ??? :o xfce started getting really slow after that, transparency was gone, and after i logged out to see what was wrong it wouldn't even start -- i had to completely uninstall and then reinstall it. after fixing what i could, i sorted most things out and at least got it running again, but i think these remaining problems may still be hurting performance. 
> 
> i would really like to get this fixed, b/c xfce is the best DE/WM i have used, and i don't want to go back to gnome after just discovering this great wm!  thx.
> 
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