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Date:      Thu, 20 May 2010 10:13:29 +0200
From:      Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com>
To:        S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, oliver@freebsd.org, gljennjohn@googlemail.com
Subject:   Re: xfce4/xorg problem amd64
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:55 AM, S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> wrot=
e:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 08:51:07 +0200
> Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Gary Jennejohn
>> <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:56:05 +0200
>> > Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Since the xorg update my xfce4 desktop has become unusable. I
>> >> always get the error message below. I even setup FreeBSD
>> >> 8.0-RELEASE from scratch, updated to 8.0-STABLE, installed xorg
>> >> and xfce4 with default settings:
>> >>
>> >> $ portinstall --batch /usr/ports/x11/xorg /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4
>> >>
>> >
>> > portinstall? =A0What's that?
>>
>> portinstall is part of ports-mgmt/portupgrade THE ports management
>> tool way back in time when portmaster wasn't around :-)
>>
>> > You could try adding --enable-checks=3Dno to CONFIGURE_ARGS in
>> > /usr/ports/devel/dbus/Makefile and reinstalling dbus. =A0This
>> > option disables all the safety checks which are being triggered.
>> >
>> > Might help.
>>
>> Thanks, I tried that. Unfortunately it didn't help.
>>
>> I wonder if the upcomming xfce 4.6.2 release is going to fix this.
>>
>
> I was thinking of trying XFCE on FreeBSD-8-Stable, but this problem has
> me concerned.
>
> Has anyone actually bugged this as yet, though? I imagine its not very
> likely to get addressed (at least officially) unless there's a PR to
> work against.,

PR: 146295 - it probably doesn't get fixed until 4.6.2:

http://old.nabble.com/upcomming-xfce-4.6.2-release-td28584690.html

Sandra



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