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Date:      Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:03:21 -0500
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070606120146.024af1e8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070606115544.1504.GERARD@seibercom.net>
References:  <20070606115544.1504.GERARD@seibercom.net>

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At 11:32 AM 6/6/2007, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>FreeBSD-6.2
>Xorg-7.2
>
>I had 'xfce4' working perfectly under Xorg-6.9; however, after
>updating to version 7.2, I cannot get the windows manager loaded.
>
>I moved the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and build a new one using "Xorg
>--configure". I was then able to at least begin loading the program
>before it crashed. I reinstalled the entire 'xorg' meta port as well
>as the 'xfce4' meta port. I used an updated ports tree for this task.
>Unfortunately, I still cannot get this to load.
>
>I have posted a copy of the '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file at:
>
>        http://seibercom.net/logs/Xorg-log.txt
>
>I also have a copy of the script I created when typing in 'startx'
>available at:
>
>        http://seibercom.net/logs/startx.txt
>
>There is one interesting point however. I noticed this error message:
>
>
>** (xfce-mcs-manager:82803): WARNING **: display_plugin: Unable to 
>configure display resolution
>Failed to run gnome-keyring-daemon: Failed to execute child process 
>"gnome-keyring-daemon" (No such file or directory)
>
>** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite 
>extension.
>
>** (xfwm4:82807): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.
>
>(xfwm4:82807): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate 
>memory)

Looks like the above is the fatal error.  I suspect you rebuilt xfwm4 for 
shared memory, shmget.  You need to add this to your kernel, or rebuild 
xfwm4 not to use it, if that's possible.

         -Derek

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