Xfce hangs the system if started while xfce-mcs-manager is present. Without mcs-manager, Xfce starts up with no problems (except that no settings can be changed!). Repeatable on 4.2.0 and 4.2.1.1. Using Gentoo, compiling with emerge. Also tried the os-cillation installer with 4.2.1.1 with the same result. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. For me to reproduce, I can emerge xfce4, which compiles and install everything nicely. 2. run startxfce4, watch it hang at the pretty pale blue screen 3. emerge -C xfce-mcs-manager, which strips the xfce-mcs-manager install. 4. run startxfce4, watch Xfce start with no problems. Actual Results: system hang! Expected Results: started the desktop environment Hardware: Athlon XP, Radeon IGP320M Kernel: Gentoo-2.6.11-r6 GTK version: GTK+ 2.6.4-r1
hmm, didn't see this before. Does anyone have an idea how to debug this problem?
Does xfce-mcs-manager hang if you try to start it after Xfce has started? If so, try running it through gdb, and hit ctrl-c when it hangs, then type 'bt' at the gdb prompt to see where. First check to see if it hangs by running it from a terminal. By default, it should detach from the terminal and fork into the background, so if it doesn't do that within a few seconds, then it's hanging. So you need to run it inside gdb, and instruct it not to fork into the background: $ gdb xfce-mcs-manager [gdb prints stuff] (gdb) run --no-daemon-debug [more stuff... wait a few seconds to make sure it's hanging] << press ctrl-c here >> [gdb prints a couple lines and gives you a prompt] (gdb) bt [gdb prints a bunch of stuff and goes back to the prompt] (gdb) quit $ Just copy and paste all the output from when you start gdb. If it's long, put it in a text file and attach it to this bug.
Reporter, could you please try the suggested approach?
No reply in 7 months. I'm resolving this as WORKSFORME.