xfdesktop blows up

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
> 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.

OK, tried that, and still no love.  I do see this error about 60 times
when i start xfdesktop manually though:
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice

any ideas?

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