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secretfox

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 11

Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

I've upgraded xfce packages from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1-1 and after login xfdesktop return a Segmentation Fault.
So I've no icons on desktop and no main menu. If I try to add main menu to panel the applet crashes in two seconds.
I've tried to delete all configuration files in my home, but nothing is changed. I've also tried to run startxfce4 from root user (with an empty home directory) and I've had the same problem.
What's happened? Is it possible to revert xfce packages to the previous version?

psyBSD

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 25

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Do you have a backtrace of the segfault?

secretfox

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 11

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Gdb backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1220733232 (LWP 6567)]
0xb76c9dcd in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb76c9dcd in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xb76cbc81 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb76cc54a in _int_memalign () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0xb76cd968 in memalign () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0xb76cdb08 in posix_memalign () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0xb77ea424 in slab_allocator_alloc_chunk () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb77eae42 in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0xb77eaf55 in g_slice_alloc0 () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0xb786405f in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9  0xb784b272 in g_object_constructor () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb7849518 in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb784a087 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb784a240 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb7ae52d4 in gtk_accel_label_new () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#14 0xb7ba565a in gtk_image_menu_item_new_with_label () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0xb6837ab9 in menu_file_xml_start () from /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so
#16 0xb77d99dd in g_markup_parse_context_parse () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 0xb68369b3 in desktop_menu_file_parse () from /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so
#18 0xb6834d56 in _generate_menu () from /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so
#19 0xb6835047 in _generate_menu_initial () from /usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so
#20 0xb77d1e11 in g_idle_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0xb77d3b91 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#22 0xb77d6bef in g_main_context_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#23 0xb77d6fa7 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#24 0xb7bc3b51 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#25 0x080558bc in main ()

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Same here.

secretfox

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 11

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Unfortunately nothing has fixed the xfce problem and I've downgraded xfce to previous version packages in my pacman cache.
Probably the problem is because new xfce packages are installed in /usr instead of /opt/xfce4, so something has been bad configured.
How to contact archlinux xfce packages mantainer(s) to check what's wrong?

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Secretfox,  I was able to fix the issue by launching xfdesktop manually after login, then logging out choosing to saving the session.

secretfox

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 11

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

I've tried to load xfdesktop and save session, but it's not works for me.
xfdesktop has been closed after one second because Segmentation Fault error.

secretfox

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Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 11

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

I'm discovered why xfdesktop crashes and main menu doesn't work.
The problem is file /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.it (for me) . I renamed it and xfdesktop now works and main menu appears correctly.
I don't know why this fails make xfdesktop crashes!
Fortunately now my xfce desktop works!
Has someone found different solutions? Really is this the problem?

archlover

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 2

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

I had the same problem.
I renamed /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.it
as /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.ita
and now xfdesktop  works!

Thanks

DaNiMoTh

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Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 260

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Yes, this works for me. It's very funny .

Mallo

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From: Italy (Como)

Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 10

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Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

I had the same problem.
I renamed /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.it
as /usr/etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.ita
and now xfdesktop  works!

Same problem for me too with it.

Thanks for the topic and the reply

Anybody could contact the mantainer to let him aware of the problem?

Thx archlover for the post

archlover

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Registered: 2007-04-16

Posts: 2

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

Same problem with last update.
Path is now /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/xfce-registered-categories.xml.it

Anybody could contact the mantainer?

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Xfdesktop 4.4.1-1 Segmentation Fault

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6937

wait for i686 package to be fixed soon.