xfce4.2 does not start

[Brian J. Tarricone]

maarten derksen wrote:

> rm: cannot remove `/tmp/dbus-maarten-xsession:0.0': Operation not 
> permitted
> mv: cannot move `/tmp/dbus.IDJFeo' to 
> `/tmp/dbus-maarten-xsession:0.0': Operation not permitted

this is harmless, but kinda lame - for some reason it looks like that 
file is owned by root.  you should delete that.

> /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
> xrdb: No such file or directory
> xrdb: can't open file '/tmp/xrdb-501.6413'

this is pretty messed up.  all X distributions should have xrdb with 
it.  perhaps your PATH is set incorrectly?  missing xrdb will cause a 
few things to not work properly, but it shouldn't be fatal.

> /usr/bin/xfce4-session: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/xfce4-session: 
> undefined symbol: xfce_setenv

here's the major problem.  did libxfce4util not get updated?  or is 
there something stale on the system that's somehow causing xfce4-session 
to link against an old copy of libxfce4util?  i'd say uninstall all of 
the xfce RPMs, check around your filesystem for stale files, delete any 
you find, and reinstall the RPMs.

    -brian