xfce4 freezes on exit

Collins Richey laser186 at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 10 20:10:33 CEST 2003




>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.
>

Are you using an nvidia card?  This sounds like an nvidia or other video 
driver problem which has little to do with xfce.

--
Collins
xfce4 on 2.6.0-test6 kernel

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