Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:43:10 -0700 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine Message-ID: <CAFuo_fzD2y5EPReTrSA-fsycxXEBErxvExz4=xsPu9GRfrk6DQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fz4qSYtEZ0wcLNa%2BpU1s5H4fVtaq1v6Trq-7HN5bOQ=CA@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>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. [-- Attachment #2 --] -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.so -> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.so -> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.so -> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75894 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1705 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.so -> libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 53539 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0help
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