Fw: Re: trying out xfce 4.6 RC1?

[Landry Breuil]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> anyone an idea how to debug this or what could have caused this?

If he's on a 64bit arch, you may want to try the fix from
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4881

Landry

>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:14:25 +0100
> From: Rene Ladan <rene at freebsd.org>
> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>
> Cc: ports at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: trying out xfce 4.6 RC1?
>
>
> 2009/2/4 Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>:
>> Rene Ladan wrote:
>>
>>> I get an error when starting up xfce4. I think the problem is that
>>> /usr/local/libexec/xfconfd is not run correctly.
>>
>> what is the errormessage you are getting?
>>
> I get a message box when starting XFCE4:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Unable to load a failsafe session"
>
> "Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes:
> xfconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem); environment
> variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/
> usr/local/etc"), or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly."
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> There is only one button on the dialog box, "Exit" (with the leave-door
> icon).
>
> dbus and hald are running, I did setenv XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /usr/local/etc
> before running startxfce4.  xfce4-session is installed.  There are messages
> that xfconfd exited with signal 11 in /var/log/messages.
>
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