xfdesktop blows up

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>I'm running FC3, and i installed XFCE4-4.2.1 from the provided Fedora RPMs
>>>on sf.net last week.  Everything was working fine until I rebooted the box
>>>this morning to add a DVD burner.  Now when i log into XFCE, xfdesktop
>>>failed to run, and the panel is missing too.  If i run xfdesktop manually,
>>>then it comes up ok, but the panel remains missing.
>>>
>>>Anyone have ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
>>>
>>
>>Not really, as "blows up" isn't really a great description of the
>>problem.  Does it simply quit?  Crash?  If it's a crash, a backtrace
>>from gdb would be most helpful.
> 
> 
> i can successfully run 'xfdesktop' from an xterm once logfged into to
> XFCE.  i'm not sure how i can get a backtrace from it when i can't
> manually replicate the problem.
> 
> The same applies if i run xfce4-panel manually from an xterm.  So they're
> both seemingly dying at login.

Or perhaps they're not running at all?  After starting Xfce, try running
each of them using the run dialog (Alt+F2), and then quit Xfce, and make
sure you have the save session checkbox checked.  Restart Xfce, and
presumably all should be well again.

	-brian

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