Problem with xfce start -

[Marshall Neill]

This may sound ridiculous but why not create another user and see if 
that helps.  If it does, then obvioulsy something in your configuration 
is borked.








On 02/10/2014 06:16 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
> I have a problem with xfce coming up in console-2 instead of console-1 
> as it should. When I CTRL ALT F-1 I see a screen full of errors, a few 
> lines of which I have manually copied in the hope that they may help 
> define whatever the problem is:
>
> (xfce4-session:1015): xfce4-session-WARNING **: Failed to set up ICE 
> authentication data, session management may not work properly.
>
> E: [pulseaudio] main.C: Daemon startup failed.
>
> (xfce4-session:1015): xfce4-session-WARNING **: ICE connection 
> 0x13b9820 rejected
>
> (xfce4-session:1031): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 
> (gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valst: runtime check failed: (domain
>
> !=0)
>
> Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to session 
> manager: Authorization Rejected, reason : None of the authentications 
> protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
>
>
> Another symptom is that when I "su" to root in a terminal it takes 
> about 30 seconds to react to my password. When I start xfce the little 
> rotating progress circle is smaller than normal and spins for about 
> thirty seconds before becoming normal size for a few seconds before 
> the desktop appears. I have never had this problem with xfce, this is 
> a new install of Fedora 20 64 bit that I have been configuring. It 
> also boots Centos 6.5 set up with XFCE too.
>
> It's beginning to look like the best way to fix things is to start 
> over, redo the new install ...
>
> Any suggestions that might avoid that will be appreciated.
>
> Bob
>