xfce4.2 does not start

[maarten derksen]

thanks brian, that was very helpful.


>> 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.
>
I did, and that solved it.

>> /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.
>

$which xrdb gives /usr/bin/X11/xrdb, but /usr/bin/X11 is a symlink to 
/usr/X11R6/bin, where xrdb is in fact. So I don't see what the problem 
can be.

>> /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.
>
That was the problem as you suspected: libxfce4util did not get updated. 
I fixed it, and now xfce starts fine. Thanks a lot.

derxen


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