xfce 4.2 Fedora Core 2 problem

[John Meadows]

Hi again Brian:

I ran the bt and got this:

gdb xfdesktop
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.0post-0.20040223.19rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
symbols found
)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) handle SIGPIPE nostop
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIGPIPE       No        Yes     Yes             Broken pipe
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/xfdesktop
Error while mapping shared library sections:
: Success.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
debugging symb
ols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols 
found)...(no d
ebugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging 
symbols f
ound)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols 
found)...(no debugg
ing symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging 
symbols found)
...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
debugging s
ymbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols 
found)...(n
o debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
debugging symbol
s found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols 
found)...(no deb
ugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging 
symbols fou
nd)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
debuggin
g symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols 
found)..
.Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
(no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
(no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
(no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.
Error while reading shared library symbols:
: No such file or directory.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0804f33e in set_imgfile_root_property ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0804f33e in set_imgfile_root_property ()
#1  0x0804fd18 in load_initial_settings ()
#2  0x0805070c in xfce_desktop_new ()
#3  0x0804d155 in main ()

I am downloading the source now to try compiling (I originally tried the 
graphical installer)

Thanks again for your help!

John

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> sorry, but that's not too useful.  i need the actual backtrace (type 
> 'bt' at the gdb prompt after it crashes).  also, it would be very 
> helpful if you were to recompile xfdesktop passing --enable-debug=yes 
> to configure.
>
> thanks,
> brian
>
> p.s. "Error while mapping shared library sections: : Success. "  <-- 
> that has to be my favorite non-error error message ever ^_~.
>
> John Meadows wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian:
>>
>> Here is the trace. I believe my Core 2 had an older version of xfce 
>> installed when it was initially set up, (even though I tried it maybe 
>> once and went  back to the default Desktop). I am wondering ifd I 
>> should do another uninstall, and then try an RPM install?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> John
>>
>> gdb xfdesktop
>> GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.0post-0.20040223.19rh)
>> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and 
>> you are
>> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
>> conditions.
>> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
>> details.
>> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...(no debugging 
>> symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library 
>> "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>>
>> (gdb) handle SIGPIPE nostop
>> Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
>> SIGPIPE       No        Yes     Yes             Broken pipe
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/xfdesktop
>> Error while mapping shared library sections:
>> : Success.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no 
>> debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> (no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library 
>> symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> (no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library 
>> symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> (no debugging symbols found)...Error while reading shared library 
>> symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> : No such file or directory.
>>
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x0804f33e in set_imgfile_root_property ()
>>
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>> John Meadows wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have tried installing/uninstalling xfce 4.2 a couple of times 
>>>> today, but I keep getting the following issue: xfce loads up ok, 
>>>> except for the desktop manager; when I run xfdesktop (so I can get 
>>>> my right click menu working on the desktop), I get a segmentation 
>>>> fault error every time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> do you get the segfault on startup, or after trying to use the 
>>> menu?  also, are you sure it isn't already running?  please provide 
>>> a backtrace (http://gaim.sf.net/gdb.php for an example of how to do 
>>> this).
>>>
>>> for future reference, please report crash bugs to 
>>> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> brian
>>>
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