On Thursday 08 December 2011 11:17:00 Ed Berger wrote: > The "xfce4-settings dumping a core" problem, has been there for a while. > When I run xfce4 by having "/usr/pkg/bin/startxfce4" in a user's > ~/.xinitrc file > and starting the xserver by manually invoking "startx" in the console login > shell (not running xdm or similar) it puts the xfce4-settings-h.core > file in the > user's home directory, if that helps you to further debug...
I did it a bit differently (I started a failsafe terminal session, then ran startxfce4) and got the following: Core was generated by `xfce4-settings-h'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x2887332f in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.7 (gdb) where #0 0x2887332f in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x288ef3ee in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.7 #2 0x288eec5e in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.7 #3 0x28e4ed65 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 #4 0x28e4a8d6 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 #5 0x28e3cbce in dbus_message_iter_open_container () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 #6 0x2813ff6b in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 #7 0x2813e985 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 #8 0x28139f5c in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 #9 0x2813a2c3 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 #10 0x2813ade5 in dbus_g_proxy_call () from /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 #11 0x280f6423 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libxfconf-0.so.2 #12 0x280f658c in xfconf_channel_set_arrayv () from /usr/pkg/lib/libxfconf-0.so.2 #13 0x280f85dc in xfconf_channel_set_string_list () from /usr/pkg/lib/libxfconf-0.so.2 #14 0x280941d9 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libxfce4kbd-private.so.5 #15 0x285fc89a in g_object_newv () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0x285fd28c in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #17 0x285fd3a7 in g_object_new () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0x28093ac8 in xfce_shortcuts_provider_new () from /usr/pkg/lib/libxfce4kbd-private.so.5 #19 0x0804cb1b in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---#20 0x28619f60 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #21 0x285fe6e5 in ?? () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0x285fcc87 in g_object_newv () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #23 0x285fd3c8 in g_object_new () from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #24 0x0804ba02 in ?? () #25 0x0804b441 in ?? () #26 0x0804b3b8 in ?? () #27 0x00000000 in ?? () Looks like it could be a problem with dbus, which I've also seen when running gedit. Does that sound right? Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera
