Status of Xorg 7.5 and xfce4?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:18:10 +0200
David DEMELIER <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/5/5 Richard Kuhns <rjk at wintek.com>:
> > On 05/05/10 10:26, Ondrej Majerech wrote:
> >> Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >>> I'll try renaming ~/.config/xfce4 when I get home this evening. I've already
> >>> removed ~/.config/xfce4-session to no effect, and I don't have an xorg.conf file
> >>> at all.
> >>
> >> Then I suppose you are using HAL and Dbus, right? Does any of these two
> >> complain about anything? You could try disabling them and writing an
> >> Xorg.conf by hand and see that gets you anywhere.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I'm using HAL and Dbus. I'm getting the following error when I try to start
> > my desktop with xfce4-session installed (which, except for the process ID, is
> > just like the other failure reports I've found in the mailing list archives):
> > ===
> > process 1675: arguments to dbus_message_new_signal() were incorrect, assertion
> > "_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1165.
> > This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
> > __D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace
> >
> > (xfce4-settings-helper:1693): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
> >
> > (xfce4-settings-helper:1693): xfce4-settings-helper-WARNING **: Failed to
> > connect to session manager
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> > xfce4-settings-helper is already running
> >
> > (xfce4-settings-helper:1699): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
> >
> > (xfce4-settings-helper:1699): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
> > manager.
> >
> > (xfdesktop:1689): libxfcegui4-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
> > ===
> >
> > I've deinstalled and reinstalled libICE and all xfce4 ports since updating Xorg.
> >
> >>>
> >>> BTW, the machine I updated is running amd64; was your successful update amd64 or
> >>> i386?
> >>
> >> Mine's i386.
> >
> > OK, a general question then: could anyone running an FreeBSD 8.0 amd64
> > kernel/userland report that they have a working Xorg 7.5/xfce4 installation?
> >
> 
> Same for me, can't run xfce4 on amd64.
> 

This doesn't answer the question, but is it an additional data point.

xfce4 (with dbus and hal), including xfce4-session, works fine for me
on a 9.0-current AMD64 system running Xorg 1.7.5.

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Gary Jennejohn