From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 07:10:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A332D1065672 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 07:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe.gain@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311898FC1B for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 07:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werg1 with SMTP id g1so511109wer.13 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 00:10:23 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sy/BGwQSlbgSag44E8LkH+ua6SvloZ+MkqVVx24tGlo=; b=gV0vQ1Gz3GPl3fypXLz87IWcP8tdkGdGd6vnmRAz1PS84ll0gpe38D3HztnF4x8fcI 69kT8D9ru2iEHdcNfzkYGhIQsPRIhKub7iWv9Q/PEXsUSs/X9/Nv/dECz5X1A1DTTGmz oXKUvMC4umdtKVRICZLn1L7X2vLq3tQkATPB9sXBz3x0QmJRTfyfDLFOUHrI+6Y17mm5 RMkTCu3EEWt7WSAeEzjBIZ+xTF8KitTuBY9J6L5dW8zOxwFMkuagaq+97fWhRX1s4Tl1 G5r4Y+FRNIE3r5Xk9f1lB35wX9AmxtlTDmErk4WMvBV3YApFSkDNp+B/ReajFGkA551p o9gA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.215.17 with SMTP id d17mr9388175wep.166.1338448218753; Thu, 31 May 2012 00:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.185.84 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2012 00:10:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:10:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: Joe Gain To: Waitman Gobble Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Thu, 31 May 2012 07:10:24 -0000 On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote= : > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble wro= te: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble wr= ote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wrot= e: >>> >>>> On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: >>>> >>>> =A0Hi, >>>>> >>>>> 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. =A0After that, r= un >>>> pkg_libchk from sysutils/bsdadminscripts. =A0Rebuild anything that say= s 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). >>>> =A0Switching to console works, switching back usually does not, reboot= ing the >>>> machine. =A0Leaving X and starting again reboots the machine. =A0These= 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 machin= e >> runs fine for days doing various things (but if i want X i have to log i= n >> as root first and startx, otherwise instant reboot). I've noticed that i= f i >> do a pkg_add the thing reboots, if i run SciTe editor it reboots. like s= nap >> 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 wi= th > 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.o= rg" 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=3Dgraphics&port=3Dcairo&fil= es=3Dyes&message_id=3D201205260354.q4Q3sBOI042864@repoman.freebsd.org --=20 joe gain jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 78464 konstanz germany +49 (0)7531 60389 (...otherwise in ???)