Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:25:17 -0700 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine Message-ID: <CAFuo_fzP-dcqztsZz65WFaV=sB-qyuZevK6p6=LHx7Voxp4v_w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205280838080.54619@wonkity.com> References: <CAFuo_fzDHFvm8Mg9nKZmyLTF-X50BwH7hC1_=LpXTSb%2BaGnKbg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205280838080.54619@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > 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. > thanks. i'll check it out.. Waitman
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