xfwm4 segmentation fault in new CVS on Debian Sarge

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jeff,

We do provide a standard way of starting xfce (ie use the startxfce4
script we povide), did you try it?

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 01:10, Jeff Hill wrote:
> I expect the seg fault is due to missing xml setting files: gtk.xml,
> keyboard.xml, mouse.xml, xffm.xml and xfwm4.xml. It seems they are
> supposed to be created when building and installing Xfce4, but it doesn't
> happen on Debian.
> 
> Xfce4 comes up, sans splash screen, but crashes the moment I try to start
> anything. I've tried on Debian (both Sarge (testing) and Sid (unstable)).
> 
> I know this is essentially a repeat of an earlier problem I posted, but
> thought I had Xfce4 running okay last week from the .deb package version.
> Unfortunately, I could never get that version to start a second time; it
> constantly crashed showing error messages similar to those below.
> 
> I've spent two weeks, off and on, googling and reading everything I can
> about Xfce4. There is scant information about the xml files, and I'm no
> programmer, so my efforts in looking at the source code have been useless.
> 
> Xfce4 Error Messages from CVS install on Debian Sarge:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> smproxy: unable to connect to session manager
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/xfcalendar/xfcalendar.xml to load data of channel
> "xfcalendar": No such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/gtk.xml to load data of channel "settings": No
> such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/gtk.xml to load data of channel "settings": No
> such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/keyboard.xml to load data of channel "keyboard":
> No such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/gtk.xml to load data of channel "settings": No
> such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/mouse.xml to load data of channel "mouse": No
> such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/xffm.xml to load data of channel "xffm": No such
> file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/xfwm4.xml to load data of channel "xfwm4": No
> such file or directory
> 
> (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): libxfce4mcs-CRITICAL **: Unable to stat file
> /home/jh/.xfce4/settings/display.xml to load data of channel "display": No
> such file or directory
> 
> ** (xfce-mcs-manager:16040): WARNING **:   module
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/workspaces_plugin.so ("workspaces") has
> already been loaded before
> ** Message: xfwm4: Workspace count not set, using rc value: 4
> /home/jh/.xinitrc: line 5: 16042 Segmentation fault     
> /usr/local/bin/xfwm4 --daemon
> ** Message: Cannot connect to session manager
> ** Message: xfce4-iconbox: Running without session manager
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: Successfully started without session management
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down 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.
> ------------------------------------
> 
> --- The greatest success I've had in starting Xfce4 is through this .xinitrc:
> ------------------------------------
> #! /bin/sh
> smproxy &
> /usr/local/bin/xfce-mcs-manager
> /usr/local/bin/xfwm4 --daemon
> /usr/local/bin/xftaskbar4 &
> /usr/local/bin/xfdesktop &
> # /usr/local/bin/xfce4-session
> /usr/local/bin/xfce4-iconbox &
> /usr/local/bin/xfcalendar &
> exec /usr/local/bin/xfce4-panel
> -------------------
> 
> I'm using Linux kernel 2.4.25, Free86 Version 4.3.0.1, and willing to try
> any suggestion. I don't have a dedicated IP address for these machines, so
> providing access is a bit problematic.
> 
> Thanks again for any assist,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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