Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:07:03 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, oliver@freebsd.org, Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: xfce4/xorg problem amd64 Message-ID: <20100520100703.43ff4fdf@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20100520075539.000052dc@unknown> References: <AANLkTiknADHHJHnC0SxdbWQeCBzg1-0O9t3sppG4JPh1@mail.gmail.com> <20100519181300.65f60f1c@ernst.jennejohn.org> <AANLkTinSpMyVMakHkXyYbIJeOo4sA27ZFDFmOd2r0oDs@mail.gmail.com> <20100520075539.000052dc@unknown>
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On Thu, 20 May 2010 07:55:39 +0100 S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 20 May 2010 08:51:07 +0200 > Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Gary Jennejohn > > <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:56:05 +0200 > > > Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Since the xorg update my xfce4 desktop has become unusable. I > > >> always get the error message below. I even setup FreeBSD > > >> 8.0-RELEASE from scratch, updated to 8.0-STABLE, installed xorg > > >> and xfce4 with default settings: > > >> > > >> $ portinstall --batch /usr/ports/x11/xorg /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 > > >> > > > > > > portinstall? What's that? > > > > portinstall is part of ports-mgmt/portupgrade THE ports management > > tool way back in time when portmaster wasn't around :-) > > > > > You could try adding --enable-checks=no to CONFIGURE_ARGS in > > > /usr/ports/devel/dbus/Makefile and reinstalling dbus. This > > > option disables all the safety checks which are being triggered. > > > > > > Might help. > > > > Thanks, I tried that. Unfortunately it didn't help. > > > > I wonder if the upcomming xfce 4.6.2 release is going to fix this. > > > > I was thinking of trying XFCE on FreeBSD-8-Stable, but this problem has > me concerned. > > Has anyone actually bugged this as yet, though? I imagine its not very > likely to get addressed (at least officially) unless there's a PR to > work against., > ports/146295, assigned to oliver@. It's about two weeks old. One thing no-one has tried to do AFAICT is to run xfce4-session under truss and find out exactly what is causing it to fail. -- Gary Jennejohn
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