xsession-errors : critical GTK errors

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Kristy Christie wrote:
> I'm running XFCE 4.2.1 and recently, I've been having some really
> annoying problems..
> 
> Xorg or either XFCE will randomly lock-up on me and the only thing I can
> do is press the reboot button on my CPU.

Assuming you're talking about an entire-GUI freeze (as in, you can't
even see the mouse moving when you move it), my first guess would be a
video driver problem.

> After locking-up, sometimes the mouse works but most of the time, it
> doesn't.

Do you mean after the reboot, or before?  If before, I partially take
back what I just said (but not really).

> I've been trying to figure out what causes these lock-ups and one of the
> errors I've spotted in .xsession-errors is:
> 
>     (xfce4-panel:8083): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_add: assertion
> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

I've seen this occasionally too; I'm relatively sure it's harmless

>     *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice

This is a bug in librsvg; harmless.

>     (xfdesktop:8081): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert: assertion
> `hash_table != NULL' failed
>     (xfce4-panel:8083): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert: assertion
> `hash_table != NULL' failed

These are both from the desktop menu code (from the latter, I assume
you're using the Xfce Menu plugin for the panel); again, harmless.

> Does anyone know wht is causing this? I've been googling but can't seem
> to find the cause.
> 
> P.S: If it makes any difference, the lock-ups started happening after I
> changed my gfx card from an S3 Virge to an nVidia GeForce2.. I don't
> know if it was just "co-incidental" timing :)

I'm strongly feeling that this is a video driver problem.  Are you using
the open-source nv driver, or the binary/proprietary nvidia driver?
Whichever you're using, trying the other one might help in figuring out
where the problem lies.

	-brian
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