misc/171078: X and XFCE (xfsettingsd) errors on shutdown/logout

Wed Oct 3 20:20:15 UTC 2012

The following reply was made to PR misc/171078; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: J B <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Cc: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier at gmail.com>, xfce at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/171078: X and XFCE (xfsettingsd) errors on shutdown/logout
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:13:52 +0200

 I have done some additional testing.
 1. I recompiled all installed XFCE ports.
 2. I nuked
 ~/.config/xfce*
 ~/.cache/sessions/
 3. Then I tested as below:

 a) $ startx
     I did not do anything, just Log Out from XFCE (orginal
 /unconfigured desktop).
     $ cat .startx.log
 xauth:  file /home/jb/.serverauth.1817 does not exist

 X.Org X Server 1.7.7
 Release Date: 2010-05-04
 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 i386
 Current Operating System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC1
 FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0: Tue Aug 14 03:56:40 UTC 2012
 root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 Build Date: 02 September 2012  11:52:43AM

 Current version of pixman: 0.24.2
 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 	to make sure that you have the latest version.
 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
 (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct  3 21:15:49 2012
 (==) Using config file: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
 xrdb:  "Xft.hinting" on line 31 overrides entry on line 6
 xrdb:  "Xft.hintstyle" on line 32 overrides entry on line 7

 (xfsettingsd:1875): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion
 `prefix != NULL' failed

 (xfwm4:1863): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `prefix !=
 NULL' failed

 (xfwm4:1863): xfwm4-WARNING **: The property
 '/general/double_click_distance' of type int is not supported

 (xfdesktop:1871): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1871): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1871): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1871): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1871): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
 xinit: connection to X server lost

 waiting for X server to shut down
 $

 b) $ startx
     This time I configured the desktop (Menu - Settings):
     - just changed some font sizes
     - removed bottom panel, moved upper panel to bottom
     - I did NOT touch Session and Startup (this is where xfsettingsd resides)
     Then I just did Log Out from XFCE (configured desktop).
     $ cat .startx.log
 xauth:  file /home/jb/.serverauth.1907 does not exist

 X.Org X Server 1.7.7
 Release Date: 2010-05-04
 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 i386
 Current Operating System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC1
 FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0: Tue Aug 14 03:56:40 UTC 2012
 root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 Build Date: 02 September 2012  11:52:43AM

 Current version of pixman: 0.24.2
 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 	to make sure that you have the latest version.
 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
 (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct  3 21:19:46 2012
 (==) Using config file: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
 xrdb:  "Xft.hinting" on line 31 overrides entry on line 6
 xrdb:  "Xft.hintstyle" on line 32 overrides entry on line 7

 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
 xinit: connection to X server lost

 waiting for X server to shut down
 $
 NOTE: no xfsettingsd error messages yet !

 c). $ startx
     I did not do anything, just Log Out from XFCE.
     $ cat .startx.log

 X.Org X Server 1.7.7
 Release Date: 2010-05-04
 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 i386
 Current Operating System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC1
 FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0: Tue Aug 14 03:56:40 UTC 2012
 root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
 Build Date: 02 September 2012  11:52:43AM

 Current version of pixman: 0.24.2
 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 	to make sure that you have the latest version.
 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
 (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct  3 21:33:19 2012
 (==) Using config file: "/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
 xrdb:  "Xft.hinting" on line 31 overrides entry on line 6
 xrdb:  "Xft.hintstyle" on line 32 overrides entry on line 7
 xinit: connection to X server lost

 waiting for X server to shut down xfsettingsd: Fatal IO error 0 (No
 error: 0) on X server :0.0.
 $

 NOTE: lack of this message I can not explain:
 xauth:  file /home/jb/.serverauth.1907 does not exist

 NOTE:
 -  these messages are not present any more
 (xfdesktop:1960): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion
 `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
 - xfsettingsd error messages appeared for the first time

 After that the .startx.log will look like the last one shown here,
 except there will be a random
 occurance of two different xfsettingsd error messages (sometimes none).

 Do you see anything valuable here for debugging ?