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 <r...@wintek.com> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"