xfwm4-settings segfault

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Nov 8 08:11:04 CET 2008


On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:20:23 +1300 Wei-Tsun Sun wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have tried to build verion 4.5.90 and 4.5.91, builds are
> successful, xfwm4 is up. However I always have segfault when starting
> up xfwm4-settings in both of the versions: Here is the backtrace, any
> idea ?
> 
> (xfwm4-settings:6768): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_string:
> assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (value)' failed

You have indeed hit a bug in the settings dialog, but it's a bug that
you should never run into unless you have another problem with your
setup.  If xfconfd isn't running, make sure you have
$xfce_prefix/share/dbus-1/services/ in your dbus service search path.

	-brian



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