From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 15:04:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587CC106566B for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 15:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135B78FC12 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 15:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4SEgctP054670; Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q4SEgc8g054667; Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Waitman Gobble In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 28 May 2012 08:42:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 15:04:37 -0000 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.