Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Jun 3, 2012 9:52 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Joe Gain joe.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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=graphicsport=cairofiles=yesmessage_id=201205260354.q4q3sboi042...@repoman.freebsd.org -- joe gain jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 78464 konstanz germany +49 (0)7531 60389 (...otherwise in ???) Hi, I think I finally got to the bottom of my instant rebooting issue. I did a csup and rebuilt world/kernel, but doing a pkg_add or running xfce4 would still reboot the machine. This morning I scoured my logs and found one message that lead me to solution: bad dir ino AT OFFSET xxx: MANGLED ENTRY. It looks like on my machine that /var/tmp got wrecked, the fsck on boot wasn't catching it. I booted into single user mode and ran fsck -y a few times, the second time it skipped the journal to do a 'regular fsck' (maybe there is a switch to force it to skip the journal anyway?). w/o Journal it picked up the inode problems and fixed.. then mounted drive rw and deleted stuff in /var/tmp pkg_add works fine now, i haven't tried xfce4 yet but i bet it's going to work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I updated to xfce4.10 using amd64 packages and everything seems to work, except for some reason startxfce4 is missing but i can get it to start fine by putting exec
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
I updated to xfce4.10 using amd64 packages and everything seems to work, except for some reason startxfce4 is missing but i can get it to start fine by putting exec xfce4-session in my .xinitrc.. anyone else experience this issue? %which startxfce4 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 installed from ports/x11-wm/xfce4 I think as a dependency on ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Jun 4, 2012 1:58 PM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: I updated to xfce4.10 using amd64 packages and everything seems to work, except for some reason startxfce4 is missing but i can get it to start fine by putting exec xfce4-session in my .xinitrc.. anyone else experience this issue? %which startxfce4 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 installed from ports/x11-wm/xfce4 I think as a dependency on ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thanks. that's where it used to be on my machine... this evening i'll check and see if its in the tbz, i still have the package file. Waitman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Joe Gain joe.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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=graphicsport=cairofiles=yesmessage_id=201205260354.q4q3sboi042...@repoman.freebsd.org -- joe gain jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 78464 konstanz germany +49 (0)7531 60389 (...otherwise in ???) Hi, I think I finally got to the bottom of my instant rebooting issue. I did a csup and rebuilt world/kernel, but doing a pkg_add or running xfce4 would still reboot the machine. This morning I scoured my logs and found one message that lead me to solution: bad dir ino AT OFFSET xxx: MANGLED ENTRY. It looks like on my machine that /var/tmp got wrecked, the fsck on boot wasn't catching it. I booted into single user mode and ran fsck -y a few times, the second time it skipped the journal to do a 'regular fsck' (maybe there is a switch to force it to skip the journal anyway?). w/o Journal it picked up the inode problems and fixed.. then mounted drive rw and deleted stuff in /var/tmp pkg_add works fine now, i haven't tried xfce4 yet but i bet it's going to work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.so - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-gobject.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.so - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo-script-interpreter.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.so - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 May 30 23:16 libcairo.so.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75894 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1705 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel22 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.so - libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 53539 Mar 5 06:32 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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=graphicsport=cairofiles=yesmessage_id=201205260354.q4q3sboi042...@repoman.freebsd.org -- joe gain jacob-burckhardt-str. 16 78464 konstanz germany +49 (0)7531 60389 (...otherwise in ???) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wbl...@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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
