From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 15:07:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B231065672; Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjk@wintek.com) Received: from local.wintek.com (local.wintek.com [206.230.2.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8124C8FC08; Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rjk.wintek.local (172.28.1.248) by local.wintek.com (172.28.1.234) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.436.0; Wed, 19 May 2010 10:56:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF3FC2D.1070609@wintek.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:56:45 -0400 From: Richard Kuhns Organization: Wintek Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100415 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" , "x11@freebsd.org" , "oliver@freebsd.org" , Sandra Kachelmann Subject: Re: xfce4/xorg problem amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rjk@wintek.com List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:07 -0000 On 05/19/10 10:46, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2010, Sandra Kachelmann 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: > ... >> So now everything should be completely vanilla: > ... >> xfdesktop[7480]: starting up >> process 7466: arguments to dbus_message_new_signal() were incorrect, >> assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file >> dbus-message.c line 1165. >> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. >> D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace >> Abort trap (core dumped) > > If you can live without the features of xfce4-session, deinstalling it > should allow xfce to run. > > There's another approach that may work for you here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-May/061097.html I'm afraid after logging in/out several more times, the sleep before starting xfce4-session only seems to help about 50% of the time :-(. I finally ended up moving xfce4-session out of the way. -- Richard Kuhns My Desk: 765-269-8541 Wintek Corporation Internet Support: 765-269-8503 427 N 6th Street STE C Consulting: 765-269-8504 Lafayette, IN 47901-2211 Accounting: 765-269-8502