xfce4/xorg problem amd64

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 07:55:39 +0100
S Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 08:51:07 +0200
> Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Gary Jennejohn
> > <gljennjohn at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:56:05 +0200
> > > Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Since the xorg update my xfce4 desktop has become unusable. I
> > >> always get the error message below. I even setup FreeBSD
> > >> 8.0-RELEASE from scratch, updated to 8.0-STABLE, installed xorg
> > >> and xfce4 with default settings:
> > >>
> > >> $ portinstall --batch /usr/ports/x11/xorg /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4
> > >>
> > >
> > > portinstall?  What's that?
> > 
> > portinstall is part of ports-mgmt/portupgrade THE ports management
> > tool way back in time when portmaster wasn't around :-)
> > 
> > > You could try adding --enable-checks=no to CONFIGURE_ARGS in
> > > /usr/ports/devel/dbus/Makefile and reinstalling dbus.  This
> > > option disables all the safety checks which are being triggered.
> > >
> > > Might help.
> > 
> > Thanks, I tried that. Unfortunately it didn't help.
> > 
> > I wonder if the upcomming xfce 4.6.2 release is going to fix this.
> > 
> 
> I was thinking of trying XFCE on FreeBSD-8-Stable, but this problem has
> me concerned.
> 
> Has anyone actually bugged this as yet, though? I imagine its not very
> likely to get addressed (at least officially) unless there's a PR to
> work against.,
> 

ports/146295, assigned to oliver at .  It's about two weeks old.

One thing no-one has tried to do AFAICT is to run xfce4-session under truss
and find out exactly what is causing it to fail.

--
Gary Jennejohn