xfce4 and xorg-7.5

[Robert]

On Sun, 2 May 2010 09:50:00 -0700
Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 May 2010 12:30:39 -0400
> Carmel <carmel_ny at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 02 May 2010 11:13:37 -0400 Carmel <carmel_ny at hotmail.com>
> > articulated:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2 May 2010 07:39:05 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block
> > > <wblock at wonkity.com> articulated:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2 May 2010, Carmel wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >>
> 
> My problem is different from these. I updated two separate systems
> today. One of them is AMD64 and XFCE4 seems to work fine but when I
> try to launch gnumeric, gthumb or K3B XFCe4 crashes. I tried
> rebuilding gnumeric with make deinstall and then make install clean
> to no avail.
> 
> My other system is an i386 and these applications work just fine.
> 
I have tried portmaster --force-config -d xfce4 and portmaster
--force-config xorg without success. 

Further testing shows that I can run these applications from a
terminal. The problem occurs only when I am trying to start them from a
desktop.