xfce4-iconbox doesn't start

[Julien Gabel]

>> The iconbox is generally launched automatically when you use the port
>> xfce4-session (which is not part of xfce4 because it is always in
>> development ; I personally don't use it because of stability problem),
>> which explain the warning. But this is not an error, and the iconbox
>> must be launched: at least it is the case on my desktop. Are you sure
>> the iconbox is not start after issuing the command?

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x28099943 in netk_gtk_window_set_type () from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libxfcegui4.so.1
>
> hm... I'm not that good in gdb / debugging, but I remember that xfce
> 4.05 moved to gtk 2.4  ... sounds like an issue with that ...

Note the "commit history" as of the 06 Apr 2004 00:26:57 for the port
'xfce4': "Fix dependency after gtk 2.4.0 import".

Update your ports tree and upgrade all your xfce packages using the
'-rR' of portupgrade(1) in order to avoid old dependancies.

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