Xfce crashing when I run it with my wlan card plugged in

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/19/06, Tine Brumec <agrabah at gmail.com> wrote:
>*snip*
> After that I get the following lines (Xorg.0.log doesn't registr them):
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> The application 'xfce4-session' lost its connection to the display: 0.0;
> most likely the x server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application
>
> the same text, but with the app xfce-mcs-manager
>
> (xfwm4:1034): libxfcegui4 - WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
>
> (xfwm4:1034): libxfcegui4 - WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager
> The application 'xfwm4' lost its connection to the display: 0.0;
> most likely the x server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application
>
> again, the same text but replace (xfwm:1034) with (xftaskbar:1036),
> (xfdesktop:1036), (xfce4-panel:1040)
>
> and, finally:
>
> xinit: connection to x server lost
>
> That's the end of the console output.
>
> I hope it gives you at least a hint of the problem (x or xfce4?)
>

This is almost definately an X problem. Xfce closes as nicely as it
can, considering the X server dies out from under it.

You should probably try the X.org list. X does some funky things to
the hardware behind the OS's back in a way it really shouldn't (and is
trying not to in the long run, to be fair).

Of course, you're running an out of kernel tree wrapper for binary
drivers from another operating system, and an old (though not very
old) version of X.org. It's highly likely no one will be able to help
you. Not to discourage you, just a warning.

Good luck

> Thanks!
>
> Tine
>
>
> On 1/19/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> > On 1/18/2006 3:46 PM, Tine Brumec wrote:
> > > Odd as it may sound, it is the truth. When my wlan card is plugged in
> > > (I'm using ndiswrapper, btw.), x starts, xfce gets going (I can see
> > > the splash screen) and then quits with segmentation fault (It says
> > > error 11).
> > > I can't pinpoint it to a single app that would crash it or would be
> > > crashed at that moment.
> > >
> > > Anyway, when I boot the computer without the wlan card and start xfce
> > > (it runs normally), I just have to plugin the wlan card and run the
> > > network script. It works just fine.
> > >
> > > What should I do? Any idea?
> >
> > The main question is: *what* quits with signal 11?  Xfce is made up of
> > several programs working together.  I'd bet it's actually the X server
> > itself that's crashing (IIRC, when it crashes I believe it prints out
> > the signal number like that), which we can't really help you with.
> >
> > At any rate, you simply haven't provided enough information.  Give us
> > the console output of running X and showing where the crash happens.
> > Does anything leave a 'core' file in your home directory?  If so, using
> > 'gdb' to get some more information would be helpful[1].
> >
> >         -brian
> >
> > [1] A nice quick howto for gdb is here: http://gaim.sf.net/gdb.php
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Erik

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