Xfce4: quit does not work

[army.of.root]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:31 AM, coolix <coolix at free.fr> wrote:

> Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a brand new machine with 7.0-STABLE-200805 AMD64 (GENERIC
> > kernel). Today I installed all the required packages using "pkg_add
> > -r", including xfce-4.4.2. Now if I run "startxfce" I get the desktop
> > environment running but neither the "Quit" option of the desktop menu
> > nor the quit button of the panel work.
>
> Got the exact same problem here too, i cant quit it. I installed XFCE4
> from ports.
> I also noticed it takes far more longer time to start than the version
> shipped in packages-7.0-release.
>
> This is the error message i have when starting XFCE4. Maybe that is what
> cause the slow start and the 'quit' problem:
> ** (xfdesktop:1386): CRITICAL **: settings_register_callback: assertion
> `cb && user_data && mcs_client' failed
>
> --
> coolix


I found out, that xfce & gnome take some extra time while starting if
127.0.0.1 isnt mapped to the hostname in /etc/hosts.
I dont know if matters here.