Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205280838080.54619@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fzDHFvm8Mg9nKZmyLTF-X50BwH7hC1_=LpXTSb%2BaGnKbg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFuo_fzDHFvm8Mg9nKZmyLTF-X50BwH7hC1_=LpXTSb%2BaGnKbg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt > the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started > X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road > and when I startx my machine reboots. If I log in as root and startx i can > run xorg without xfce4. but if i try startxfce4 the machine reboots. If I > try to startx without xfce4 from my non-root account it locks up. > It's pretty quick and nothing I can see in the logs... > > Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting??? It seems like it's out of > the blue with no changes to the system that I recall. :) First, make sure you have cairo-1.10 instead of 1.12. After that, run pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. Rebuild anything that says it is missing libxfce4-utils. After that, well, I still see some unsteadiness from xfce-4.10. There's a long delay on start, like a DNS timeout (but I have working DNS). Switching to console works, switching back usually does not, rebooting the machine. Leaving X and starting again reboots the machine. These last two could be due to the recent X upgrade, except I'm pretty sure they did not happen until xfce-4.10.
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