xfdesktop crashes and seg faults

reguspatoff · 2014-02-19 03:05:33

I am using xfce on openSUSE 13.1 and xfdesktop fails to run indicating it seg faults. This happened after I upgraded from SuSE 12.3 to 13.1. Everything else seems to be ok and everything worked before the upgrade. Any ideas as to how to fix the problem?

ToZ · 2014-02-19 03:49:51

Try clearing your sessions cache. If you're using Xfce 4.10, you can find the option in Settings Manager -> Session and Startup -> Sessions tab. If you're using a version earlier than 4.10, you'll have to manually delete ~/.cache/sessions while not logged in.

reguspatoff · 2014-02-19 05:38:59

I tried your suggestion no change. This is some of the error messages:
(xfdesktop:4190): GLib-WARNING**: (gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain !=0)
Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified
are supported and host-based authentication failed.

**(xfdesktop:4190): WARNING **:xfdesktop: unable to connect to settings daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.. Default will be used

Several failures followed and the the seg fault.

Hope this helps.

ToZ · 2014-02-19 14:13:45

reguspatoff wrote:

I am using xfce on openSUSE 13.1 and xfdesktop fails to run indicating it seg faults. This happened after I upgraded from SuSE 12.3 to 13.1.

Did the upgrade complete successfully without issue?

**(xfdesktop:4190): WARNING **:xfdesktop: unable to connect to settings daemon: Did not receive a reply.

Is xfsettingsd running? If not, what happens if you try to start it? If it starts successfully, try manually re-starting xfdesktop.

reguspatoff · 2014-02-19 16:59:44

Yes, upgraded no problems, even xfdesktop worked fine. Yes, xfsettingsd is running. Something even stranger, now xfdesktop will work fine one time I start the computer. The next time it won't.

I tried starting xfdesktop, using xfdesktop --display= 0.0,

but it failed with this error:
Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:

ToZ · 2014-02-19 17:37:34

reguspatoff wrote:

Yes, upgraded no problems, even xfdesktop worked fine. Yes, xfsettingsd is running. Something even stranger, now xfdesktop will work fine one time I start the computer. The next time it won't.
I tried starting xfdesktop, using xfdesktop --display= 0.0,
but it failed with this error:
Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:

There should be no spaces between the = and the display designation. Try:

xfdesktop --display=:0.0

reguspatoff · 2014-02-20 01:53:29

That did the trick. xfdesktop started and appears to be running correctly. As to why it happens I don't know, but doing what you said seems fix it when it doesn't start at first.

Thanks for the help.

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xfdesktop crashes and seg faults

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