xfdesktop blows up

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 12 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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>>>>>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?
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>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
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>>>>>>from gdb would be most helpful.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>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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>>But does xfdesktop start?  That warning is a bug in librsvg; it's harmless.
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> 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.
> 

Did you by chance run something like nautilus that takes over the
desktop?  For some reason xfdesktop sometimes dies when that happens.

	-brian
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