xfce4.2 freezes

[Scott Horowitz]

I've still gotten nowhere with this. Running xfce as root gives the same 
result. Even if I just try to run xfce4-panel from a console in fluxbox 
everything freezes up, and neither ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-f1 do 
anything. I tried having top running before I call xfce4-panel but that 
wasn't any help.

I'm really out of ideas at this point. Nobody has any suggestions about 
troubleshooting this? I suppose I can try compiling from source as a 
last resort..

Scott

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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..
>>
> 
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