Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:38:55 -0700 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine Message-ID: <CAFuo_fz1WMMcwpCV_xX2ytmfMg%2Bda8jQbfB8vd6TiNvaeQAc_A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fz49zSSshZWPVS0jL%2B2f1QLk8xqCYMAvduszttO1QuY%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFuo_fzDHFvm8Mg9nKZmyLTF-X50BwH7hC1_=LpXTSb%2BaGnKbg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205280838080.54619@wonkity.com> <CAFuo_fzP-dcqztsZz65WFaV=sB-qyuZevK6p6=LHx7Voxp4v_w@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuo_fz4qSYtEZ0wcLNa%2BpU1s5H4fVtaq1v6Trq-7HN5bOQ=CA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuo_fzD2y5EPReTrSA-fsycxXEBErxvExz4=xsPu9GRfrk6DQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAO6-GAczcfY2MVcC76vtxiGgPO6XsEXz-W3cLUK9t45NLddGQg@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuo_fz49zSSshZWPVS0jL%2B2f1QLk8xqCYMAvduszttO1QuY%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 3, 2012 9:52 AM, "Waitman Gobble" <gobble.wa@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Joe Gain <joe.gain@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com >wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com >wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> 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 >> >>> >> >>> >> >> spending some time troubleshooting this. it's a weird harold, the machine >> >> runs fine for days doing various things (but if i want X i have to log in >> >> as root first and startx, otherwise instant reboot). I've noticed that if i >> >> do a pkg_add the thing reboots, if i run SciTe editor it reboots. like snap >> >> of a finger instantly. >> >> >> >> I can do pkg_delete, i deleted cairo (but it claimed to be 1.10). i'll >> >> have to re-add somehow, might have to build from source if it won't stop >> >> rebooting :) >> >> >> >> i'll try the pkg_libchk >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Waitman >> >> >> >> >> > this is kind of strange, ls -l /usr/local/lib | grep cairo - what's up with >> > the zero-byte files.. i did do a pkg_delete but didn't expect to see this. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> Can't help with a solution. >> >> I had a very similar problem. I'm following 9.0-STABLE (rev. 235976 >> ca. week old) using xfce and have a thinkpad laptop with intel >> on-board graphics chip. My problems started when I updated the cairo >> port, and at the time I couldn't really believe that cairo was the >> cause of _the_ problem, because of the way X was crashing. What was >> even more frustrating was that the Xorg log file was not revealing >> anything other than "unknown error" and segfault. So, I didn't know >> what to do for a while, and after spending a couple of days looking >> for an answer, downgrading cairo fixed that issue. >> >> Couple of days later the new xfce is also available, and I have had no >> problems running it, on stable with downgraded (currently current >> again*) cairo. Be sure to read UPDATING with respect to xfce4-utils >> etc. >> >> It would be interesting to hear from someone who knows what's going on >> as this is the first major hiccup that I've had using freebsd. >> >> Thanks, Joe >> >> * http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?category=graphics&port=cairo&files=yes&message_id=201205260354.q4Q3sBOI042864@repoman.freebsd.org >> -- >> joe gain >> >> jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 >> 78464 konstanz >> germany >> >> +49 (0)7531 60389 >> >> (...otherwise in ???) > > > > Hi, > > I think I finally got to the bottom of my instant rebooting issue. I did a csup and rebuilt world/kernel, but doing a pkg_add or running xfce4 would still reboot the machine. This morning I scoured my logs and found one message that lead me to solution: bad dir ino xxxx AT OFFSET xxx: MANGLED ENTRY. > > It looks like on my machine that /var/tmp got wrecked, the fsck on boot wasn't catching it. > > I booted into single user mode and ran fsck -y a few times, the second time it skipped the journal to do a 'regular fsck' (maybe there is a switch to force it to skip the journal anyway?). w/o Journal it picked up the inode problems and fixed.. then mounted drive rw and deleted stuff in /var/tmp > > pkg_add works fine now, i haven't tried xfce4 yet but i bet it's going to work. > > Waitman Gobble > San Jose California USA > I updated to xfce4.10 using amd64 packages and everything seems to work, except for some reason "startxfce4" is missing.... but i can get it to start fine by putting "exec xfce4-session" in my .xinitrc.. anyone else experience this issue? Thanks, Waitman Gobble San Jose California US
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