Re: xfce crashes

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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