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On Slackware, when xdm is used as the graphical login screen, after login, xdm runs X as root and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc as the user.
When the system is configured to use Xfce, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is a symlink to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce which is a symlink to /etc/xfce/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc.
Distribution: RPM Distros,Mostly Mandrake Forks;Drake Tools/Utilities all the way!GO MAGEIA!!!
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I ran startxfce4 and got this.
Code:
[root@localhost kbs]# startxfce4
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: Unknown error
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_disconnect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_disconnect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): xfconf-CRITICAL **: xfconf_init() must be called before attempting to use libxfconf!
** (xfce4-session:8421): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(xfce4-session:8421): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
Failed to connect to Xfconf daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
running 'kill -INT 8417; rm -f /root/.cache/gpg-agent-info'
[root@localhost kbs]#
Distribution: RPM Distros,Mostly Mandrake Forks;Drake Tools/Utilities all the way!GO MAGEIA!!!
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It works now.
I tried to un-install and then re-install but I removed Task Xfce by mistake thinking it would remove all of Xfce. Xfce is now working fine.
Should I feel happy? Should I give this anymore thought? Mageia has become my dominate user Distro but this kind of thing makes me want to put the extra effort in to CentOS/Scientific.
My (far from infallible) rule is "use a distro with its preferred desktop". Even respectable distros can have accidents with "afterthoughts": the EPEL Xfce for CentOS that forgot a vital file, or OpenSUSE offering Gnome and Xfce with no file-searching tools.
Last edited by DavidMcCann; 05-19-2012 at 11:55 AM.
Distribution: RPM Distros,Mostly Mandrake Forks;Drake Tools/Utilities all the way!GO MAGEIA!!!
Posts: 986
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I'm going to move away from "Production Distros".
I usually suspend my computer verses turn it off so I don't really know when a new install disrupts the system. When I rebooted; after Xfce seemed fine ,Firefox would not open and none of my File Managers would work correctly. I was using Fedora because I had to reboot from Mageia and I forgot that Fedora can never work out their (suspend) issues so I moved back (rebooted Mageia) which never has a suspend problem. I don't think that the Production Distros are worth fooling with too much anymore and that is why businesses will pay Redhat, etcetera, the big money.For myself I will aspire to use LFS or Gentoo in the future.
Thanks for the Replies and I'm off to a new thread!
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