I have a brand new 3.6 install as well and a dports based xfce4 and its apps are very stable. I remember though that in an older pkgsrc based install (maybe 3.2?) crashed thunar and many other xfce apps, so it was mostly unusable.
Peeter -- On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:49 AM wrote: > Hi, > > My former copy was based in /usr/pkg, while the new one is based in > /usr/local. /usr/pkg have been renamed before an eventual deletion, to > avoid any confusion. > > I wonder if it could be related to any locale manner. I compiled the > packages myself, so if I'm the only one with this problem, it's probably > related with my environment. > > What version of DragonFly are you using? > > Thanks for the reply. > > SR > > > > Le 2014-01-08 12:28, Warren Postma a écrit : > > >> Xfce for its part is hardly usable because the panels and Thunar are > crashing at startup. > > I have no problems launching XFCE4 panel (the dock area) or file manager > (thunar) on my brand new install. I suspect you may have some old shared > libraries or other broken dependencies? Have you tried uninstalling > all XFCE4 dependencies that were installed using pkgsrc and reinstalling > them all freshely with dports? > > Warren > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:33 PM, <sruss...@prodigeinfo.qc.ca> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just upgraded my DF station from 3.4 to 3.6. In the process, I >> decided to try dport. I compiled it myself, as usual. I need LDAP+Kerberos >> enabled, plus few other things. >> >> Overall, I'm very glad of it. DF 3.6 is running like a charm and I can >> now access some applications that were unavailable in pkgsrc. >> >> I had minor problems with the dports packages. For example, I had to >> compile and install the pkgsrc version of pam_krb5 because the version >> provided in dports does not work properly. VLC2 is also not working for me >> and was replaced by umplayer. Stuff like that. >> >> I have only one significant problem that affects mostly all applications >> using Glib, which includes wxGTK apps, including Seamonkey and LibreOffice. >> >> Every time that I try to open or save a file, a the popup window shows >> itself and works normally. But after a few seconds, the popup freezes and >> the application sends this message before crashing: >> >> «GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during >> 'pthread_mutex_lock': Resource deadlock avoided. Aborting.» >> >> Xfce for its part is hardly usable because the panels and Thunar are >> crashing at startup. >> >> It looks like the problem affects any process that tries to read a >> directory or something related. Most of theses applications are totally >> functionnal otherwise. >> >> If anyone had this problem or have a clue of what's causing it, please >> reply to me. >> >> As for the rest, DragonFly really rocks! It got everything in hand to >> take the lead. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stephane Russell >> >> -- > Stéphane Russell > Informaticien > Prodige Informatique, s.a. > Tél. : 450 323-6224 > Courriel : mailto:sruss...@prodigeinfo.com > Web : http://www.prodigeinfo.com > > Ce courrier est confidentiel. Toute utilisation ou rediffusion, intégrale > ou partielle, par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) > désigné(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courrier électronique par > erreur, prière d'en aviser l'envoyeur. > >