4.4rc1 works for root but not for user

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Hi,

I noticed you used the Gtk-Qt engine: Never, ever, do that, it crashes
and takes all GTK apps with it.

- From a console, w/out xfce running, get rid of your settings all
together, try this:

mv $HOME/.config/xfce4 $HOME/.config/xfce4.bak

And log in again.

BTW, the compositor can be enabled/disabled at runtime in 4.4. And it's
disabled by default, so it's unlikely your problem.

HTH
Olivier.

Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem inn SuSE 10.1 that began somewhat
> simply -- an inability to call up the xfce settings window -- and has
> now escalated to a puzzling inability to call up xfce at all as user. 
> 
> I've tried uninstalling, then reinstalling XFCE 4.4rc1 both with and
> without the compositor function. 
> 
> The symptoms:
> 
> Calling up xfce under level 3 at a system prompt using startxfce4
> gave me the opening splash screen, then a "frozen" screen with a
> montage of partial images of just about every program that had been
> running the last time I ran XFCE -- kinda like a scrambled screenshot.
> The only way to get rid of it was ctrl-alt-bksp to return me to the
> system prompt. Yet -- when I logged in as root, start-up was virtually
> flawless -- except for an error message saying Thunar couldn't connect
> to Trash. And I could activate the settings window (my original
> problem as user).
> 
> When I looked at xsession-errors that first time around, things seemed
> to hang up with the compositor. So I uninstalled XFCE and reinstalled
> it without the compositor. I also shifted back to run level 5 so I could
> use an alternate window manager if necessary. 
> 
> At RL 5, I tried to activate XFCE and again got the splash screen.
> Instead of ending up at XFCE, however, I got returned to the log-in
> screen with no fill-in sections for user name and password. I got the
> labels, but no place to enter the information. And I got an x error
> message, to wit: gkrellm segmentation fault:(create_monitor). So, I
> removed Gkrellm, just for laughs, and the error message went away, but
> I still got kicked back to the long-in screen sans fill-in fields. Here
> is the contents of xsession-errors:
> 
> 
> /etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started.
> INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
> Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ...
> There is no default input method for the current locale.
> /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
> Agent pid 3277
> Not initializing the Gtk-Qt theme engine
> Not initializing the Gtk-Qt theme engine
> 
> =================================================================
> Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
> a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries 
> used by your application.
> =================================================================
> 
> Stacktrace:
> 
> in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Clipboard:gtk_clipboard_wait_for_text (intptr) <0x4>
> in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Clipboard:gtk_clipboard_wait_for_text (intptr) <0xffffffc5>
> in Gtk.Clipboard:WaitForText () <0x1d>
> in Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:.ctor () <0x14c>
> in Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenUpdater:Main (string[]) <0x2ef>
> in (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object:runtime_invoke_int_string[] (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x50c84d56>
> 
> Native stacktrace:
> 
> 	zen-updater(mono_handle_native_sigsegv+0xbb) [0x8150c2b]
> 	zen-updater [0x811fee0]
> 	[0xffffe440]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d2a5ec]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d2c1bb]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6d2c55f]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x16d) [0xb7e79abd]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xb7e7ccbf]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1a9) [0xb7e7d069]
> 	/opt/gnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(IA__gtk_clipboard_wait_for_text+0x7d) [0xb6dfbbfd]
> 	[0xb699077d]
> 	[0xb6990716]
> 	[0xb698ec4d]
> 	[0xb7452b70]
> 	[0xb7451874]
> 	zen-updater(mono_runtime_exec_main+0x9f) [0x80d659f]
> 	zen-updater(mono_runtime_run_main+0x152) [0x80d67d2]
> 	zen-updater(mono_main+0xef9) [0x805dae9]
> 	zen-updater [0x805c702]
> 	/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7cef87c]
> 	zen-updater [0x805c651]
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 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 application 'Thunar' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> Agent pid 3277 killed
> 
> 
> The "not initializing the Gtk-Qt theme engine" catches my eye. But
> I'm not sure what to do about that. And as before, I *could* activate
> XFCE as root (again, with the Thunar error message). Any suggestions
> for how to fix this?
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Pete

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