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Breakage

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Cannot start Xfce on new ftp iso 2007.8 install and firefox problems

I just reinstalled arch using the ftp iso and installed xfce following the wiki and xfce wont start with "startxfce4" or .xinitrc,
X flashes then loads back to cli and gives me these errors:

/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 84: 5578 Aborted  $xfcesm

Waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1 ; fixing.

I've tried reinstalling arch twice I get the same errors, Xfce was working fine before reinstall with everything updated. And openbox works on this install.

Also I tried to install firefox "pacman -S firefox" to post on forums but firefox wouldn't start eather and I get this error:

[ash@breakage ~]$ firefox
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-ash/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

** ERROR **: I can't write to '/tmp/orbit-ash', ORB init failed
aborting...
/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.12/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  5754 Aborted                 "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Here's the errors in Xorg.0.log:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

And errors from ERRORS.log:

Mar  1 06:43:33 breakage usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Mar  1 07:02:24 breakage usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Mar  1 07:47:12 breakage usb 2-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71
Mar  1 08:00:38 gconfd (ash-5699): I can't write to '/tmp/orbit-ash', ORB init failed
Mar  1 08:01:10 gconfd (ash-5758): I can't write to '/tmp/orbit-ash', ORB init failed
Mar  1 08:01:35 gconfd (ash-5774): I can't write to '/tmp/orbit-ash', ORB init failed

I've followed the wiki closely both times and I don't know whats wrong. I miss my arch install

Could this error have something to do with this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43898

Edit: It was a /tmp permission error, i've fixed it with chmod -R 777 tmp but as things have already messed up and I dont trust the ftp iso, im reinstalling with core iso.

Last edited by Breakage (2008-03-01 10:08:47)

dwi

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Registered: 2008-01-27

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Re: Cannot start Xfce on new ftp iso 2007.8 install and firefox problems

Just a quick FYI: The correct permissions for /tmp on most *nix systems is not 777, but instead 1777.

Breakage

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: Cannot start Xfce on new ftp iso 2007.8 install and firefox problems

Just a quick FYI: The correct permissions for /tmp on most *nix systems is not 777, but instead 1777.

Thanks, just changed to 1777.