xfce4 and xorg-7.5

Carmel gerard at seibercom.net
Sun May 2 12:26:25 UTC 2010


On Sat, 1 May 2010 17:43:48 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> articulated:

> I've upgraded three computers to xorg 7.5 so far, all three with xfce4 
> and 8-stable.  Only one has an unexpected weirdness with dbus and xfce.
> 
> This error happens every time on the first startx after boot, and about
> half the time startx is tried after that:
> 
>    process 1256: 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
> 
> X starts, the xfce4 screen is visible with the mouse pointer, then it 
> immediately exits.  Happens with startx, startxfce4 in .xinitrc or just 
> from the command line.
> 
> twm runs every time without problems.
> 
> Log and config files here:
> 
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/xfce-xorg/


I am having the exact same problem. I posted to the "FreeBSD Questioins"
forum regarding it.

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Carmel
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