xfce4.2 freezes

[Olivier Fourdan]

Scott,

When that happens, please switch to a console (using Ctrl+Alt+F1) and do
a top to identify which process is looping.

TIA
Olivier.

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:16 -0700, Scott Horowitz wrote:
> I don't know if I should be posting this here or on my distro's mailing
> list.. but basically, I rebooted and now xfce freezes when starting up.
> It had been working just fine until today. I use startxfce4, 
> xfce-session starts, I see the session splash - and then it gets to 
> "Loading desktop settings" and it's dead. Although the cpu is definitely 
> doing something because my laptop fan goes into its highest speed.. but 
> I've let it work for 5+ minutes with no activity. And I can't 
> ctl-alt-backspace or anything, I have to physically restart.
> 
> I've deleting my .cache, I'm renamed my .config to .config.bak, I've
> uninstalled and reinstalled the Xfce4 group, and I'm still in the same
> situation.
> 
> I've also tried replacing startxfce4 with:
> exec xfdesktop
> and that seems to work (unless xfdesktop is supposed to give me a 
> background or a right-click? because I don't get those but I can 
> ctrl-alt-backspace out of X)
> 
> If I instead use:
> xftaskbar4 &
> exec xfdesktop
> I get a blank taskbar at the top and then it's again frozen. Have to 
> physically restart.
> 
> Any ideas? How can I diagnose this problem? Thanks in advance..
>