xfdesktop blows up

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Apr 12 22:49:54 CEST 2005


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Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?

But does xfdesktop start?  That warning is a bug in librsvg; it's harmless.

	-brian
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