Xfce Crashed, Can't Get Toolbars Back

[Matthias Oestreicher]

Am Montag, den 13.05.2019, 05:57 +0200 schrieb Polytropon:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 20:46:43 -0700, B J wrote:
> > I'm running FreeBSD 11.2 with Xfce on a laptop.  For some reason, the
> > desktop crashed and I can't get the toolbars back.
> 
> Is this "something new" or does it happen right after
> installation? If "new", what did you do before the
> problem appeared?
> 
> 
> 
> > I booted the machine, logged in under my account, and I got messages
> > concerning the following:
> > 
> > serverauth.812 does not exist
> 
> Strange. The file(s) in question are named .serverauth.<n>,
> with a dot (".") at the beginning...
> 
> 
> 
> > .Xauthority not writable
> > 
> > I haven't the foggiest what that means and I'm wondering just how I'm going
> > to get Xfce working again without having to do a clean re-installation.
> 
> This looks like a secondary problem. But what does
> 
> 	% ls -la ~/.Xauthority
> 
> report? It should belong to your user and have rw/-/- mode.
> 
> 
> 
> > Any ideas or suggestions?  Thank you.
> 
> I assume you're starting X with "startx", so it uses a .xinitrc,
> right? In this case, replace the call to Xfce (the last "exec"
> line) with
> 
> 	exec xterm
> 
> Now your X session will start with nothing but an X terminal.
> In this terminal, manually enter the command which you use
> to start Xfce (check .xinitrc when in doubt).
> 
> In case you're using a display manager, apply .xsession instead
> of .xinitrc in the steps mentioned above.
> 
> Is there anything "non-standard" about your X setup?
> 
> Anything in .xsession-errors?
> 
> 
> 
> In worst case, just remove and re-install the Xfce-related
> ports.
> 
Maybe you had accidentally su'ed to root when you started your
previous X session?
In such case, the files you mentioned and also some other X related
files in your home directory will be owned by root then.
Just remove them as Polytropon already suggested.

That would at least explain why ~/.Xauthority isn't writeable.

Matthias