xfce4.2 freezes

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Which distro are you running?  What kind of hardware is this?  This sounds
alot like a hardware problem (likely bad RAM).

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Scott Horowitz wrote:
> 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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> >
>
>

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