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sonne

Member

Registered: 2008-01-13

Posts: 1

xfdesktop segfaults on right click

Hello,

I have just installed Xubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) with its xfce version 4.4.1 (Xfce 4.4).
Right after the installation everything worked fine. I could open the menu when right-clicking on the desktop, set a wallpaper and everything. But suddenly, I lost the right-click menu. I figured I had somehow messed up my configuration, so I changed the wallpaper back to a standard one but it did not help.
Then I created a new user and logged on with that one, and I could use the right-click menu again. But only for some time, then it would not appear anymore. I found out that xfdesktop is responsible and it was not running anymore, so I started it from a terminal. Thus, I noticed, that exactly in the moment I do a right-click on the desktop, xfdesktop segfaults.

meike@wicked:~$ xfdesktop
Segmentation fault (core dumped)  # This happens when I do a right-click on the desktop
meike@wicked:~$

I have deleted my xfdesktop configuration:

meike@wicked:~$ ls -la .config/xfce4/desktop
total 8
drwx------  2 meike meike 4096 2008-01-13 21:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 meike meike 4096 2008-01-13 21:35 ..
meike@wicked:~$

But I still can't get xfdesktop to survive a right-click and show me the menu.

This is a strace xfdesktop from the moment on I do a right-click:

poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 3, -1) = 1
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32])                = 0
read(3, "\4\3\17\1\263O\362tX\0\0\0\3\0`\2\0\0\0\0\363\3\301\1\363"..., 32) = 32
write(3, "\20\0\10\0\30\0`\2_NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK", 32) = 32
read(3, "\1r\20\1\0\0\0\0)\1\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
write(3, "\24\0\6\0X\0\0\0)\1\0\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\377\377\377\177"..., 24) = 24
read(3, "\1 \21\1\1\0\0\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
read(3, "\256\0\300\0", 4)              = 4
write(3, "\2\0\4\0\256\0\300\0\0\10\0\0\0\0\2\0+\0\1\0", 20) = 20
read(3, "\1\2\23\1\0\0\0\0!\0@\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\330\347\375\277"..., 32) = 32
write(3, "\20\0\6\0\16\0\300\0_NET_SUPPORTED\377\177", 24) = 24
read(3, "\1r\24\1\0\0\0\0W\1\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
write(3, "\24\0\6\0X\0\0\0W\1\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\377\377\377\177"..., 24) = 24
read(3, "\1 \25\1;\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0;\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32) = 32
read(3, "D\1\0\0@\1\0\0?\1\0\0R\1\0\0A\1\0\0B\1\0\0S\1\0\0E\1\0"..., 236) = 236
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Process 7032 detached
meike@wicked:~$

Do you have any idea what I can do to debug this error?

Regards,
Meike

helter

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From: Arizona, US

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 1

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Re: xfdesktop segfaults on right click

I am having the same problem aswell.

I've googled around and found some things that were similar, though I've found no actual solid fix for it.

Ubuntu 7.10, Xfce 4.2.2