Recovering From Error

[Robby Workman]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Yesterday afternoon I was attempting to use the trackball to switch from
> one virtual desktop to another (an action I've done thousands of times) when
> I screwed things up. I must have been holding a shift or control key at the
> time because I lost the panel and all virtual desktops other than the one I
> was on at the time. I've not been able to recover from this despite
> re-installing the xfce Slackware package and replacing a couple of missing
> libraries from the backup tape. When I open a virtual terminal and type
> 'xfce4-panel &' it comes up (only until I close that terminal window). What
> I see in response to the command is:
> 
> ** (xfce4-panel:634): WARNING **: module
> /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libshowdesktop.so cannot be opened:
> libxfce4panel.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> ** (xfce4-panel:634): WARNING **: module
> /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libwindowlist.so cannot be opened:
> libxfce4panel.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> 
> ** (xfce4-panel:634): CRITICAL **: find_master: assertion `mixer_handle !=
> -1' failed
> 
> ** (xfce4-panel:634): WARNING **: oss: No master volume
> 
>    From the backup tape I restored libshowdesktop.so and libwindowlist.so.
> However, I cannot find libxfce4panel.so.1.
> 
>    I cannot reproduce the error nor can I restore the behavior of the system
> as it was before. Suggestions appreciated.


Reinstalling Slackware's xfce package will replace the missing library 
files and
run ldconfig(1), so everything should work afterward.  If not, then 
perhaps you
have some cruft in /usr/local/ or some such.

-RW