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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
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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.

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