Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 08:38:26 +0200 From: Matthias Oestreicher <matthias@smormegpa.no> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xfce Crashed, Can't Get Toolbars Back Message-ID: <9e116e69eff6be8b4fce1ef9264bdf6863113d0f.camel@smormegpa.no> In-Reply-To: <20190513055738.d390a8dd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAP7QzkP3FktdYuDPpX8X7%2BWOSyvb1w2zfgHpucv8yHBBS-NqKA@mail.gmail.com> <20190513055738.d390a8dd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Am Montag, den 13.05.2019, 05:57 +0200 schrieb Polytropon:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 20:46:43 -0700, B J wrote:
> > I'm running FreeBSD 11.2 with Xfce on a laptop. For some reason, the
> > desktop crashed and I can't get the toolbars back.
>
> Is this "something new" or does it happen right after
> installation? If "new", what did you do before the
> problem appeared?
>
>
>
> > I booted the machine, logged in under my account, and I got messages
> > concerning the following:
> >
> > serverauth.812 does not exist
>
> Strange. The file(s) in question are named .serverauth.<n>,
> with a dot (".") at the beginning...
>
>
>
> > .Xauthority not writable
> >
> > I haven't the foggiest what that means and I'm wondering just how I'm going
> > to get Xfce working again without having to do a clean re-installation.
>
> This looks like a secondary problem. But what does
>
> % ls -la ~/.Xauthority
>
> report? It should belong to your user and have rw/-/- mode.
>
>
>
> > Any ideas or suggestions? Thank you.
>
> I assume you're starting X with "startx", so it uses a .xinitrc,
> right? In this case, replace the call to Xfce (the last "exec"
> line) with
>
> exec xterm
>
> Now your X session will start with nothing but an X terminal.
> In this terminal, manually enter the command which you use
> to start Xfce (check .xinitrc when in doubt).
>
> In case you're using a display manager, apply .xsession instead
> of .xinitrc in the steps mentioned above.
>
> Is there anything "non-standard" about your X setup?
>
> Anything in .xsession-errors?
>
>
>
> In worst case, just remove and re-install the Xfce-related
> ports.
>
Maybe you had accidentally su'ed to root when you started your
previous X session?
In such case, the files you mentioned and also some other X related
files in your home directory will be owned by root then.
Just remove them as Polytropon already suggested.
That would at least explain why ~/.Xauthority isn't writeable.
Matthias
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