From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 17:25:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BF5106566B for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 17:25:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobble.wa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A380F8FC08 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 17:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds11 with SMTP id ds11so3118494wgb.31 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:25:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XtH7x+APltQj0Rwwr2uK7VKm94KPJwuobmkXSVWuE08=; b=zZw0lPficpcSUK2RArShtk/ltozULQ7MlNlMTJ/vH66qNUGAMwhV6qE3LqQaJybQEE Gvo93LSEFVcNR5/2cwIJpIKbrliUwaXXCvTdkaPqy7gzkIcJG+5dISUNAUqN9i/VdvjR ZX+udlSAHPD0gW9HuwAyNjyubFlDm3R+1Fe5xsw9a32pkqSwiCz3KrZuLTdKOoO4pOzZ Pgj3WC8WqC6Ks6OFGzk4WKCHZvBxWqCAEiCu5JKNRVvFUSMBsgLz9xYLXos6JUrdiSIs iCk5tn+R7uTvPzcEiA/91HiJ/bMqIDJ4x+7/zT0AdRBaWui3GHj7rbgXGnRCcGCASmzY LYcg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.145.157 with SMTP id p29mr5019945wej.65.1338225917547; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.184.73 with HTTP; Mon, 28 May 2012 10:25:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:25:17 -0700 Message-ID: From: Waitman Gobble To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 17:25:19 -0000 On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block 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