xfdesktop blows up

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

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

Yea it seems to be ok now, thanks.  I'm still not sure why it failed in
the first place, since i didn't kill either of them intentionally before
logging out in the past.

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