Created attachment 319562 [details] valgrind output Description of problem: I've recently updated to rawhide and my xfce begun to crash - it crashes so often that it makes it unusable. It stats with panel then xfdesktop. Even applications (e.g. pidgin) crash a lot when run under xfce - this doesn't happen in GNOME so i guess it's connected to xfce. This happens on system updated from F9 to rawhide - I tried this with fresh install and it works fine. According to attached valgrind log there is a lot of invalid reads in some gtk_ g_ function - I'm not very familiar with gtk, so I can't tell if it's xfce fault or gtk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xfce4-panel-4.4.2-5.fc10.i386 xfdesktop-4.4.2-6.fc10.i386 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. update from F9 to rawhide 2. run xfce 3. try to use it.. Actual results: after a while it crashes Expected results: not to crash :) Additional info:
I just managed to crash xfce even on freshly install rawhide (just closed some window and everything disappeared) - so it crashes even on clean install (but much less).
Can you please be a little more precise? What crashed - xfce4-panel or xfdesktop? Can you try downgrading to xfce4-panel-4.4.2-4.fc10 to see if it panel related? We had a couple of changes in xfdesktop recently, so I want to check the panel first.
In my comment #1 everything crashed - I ended up with wallpaper and pointer. But on the other computer (F9->rawhide updated one) sometimes xfdesktop crashes firtst, sometimes xfce4-panel sometimes everything together. If there is smth I can do to determine which one is causing, let me know and I'll try.
(In reply to comment #3) > In my comment #1 everything crashed - I ended up with wallpaper and pointer. Ok then, but what exactly means "crashed" in this case? When you switch to a vt and do a ps -A there, are there any Xfce components left? Are the programs you started gone too? > But on the other computer (F9->rawhide updated one) sometimes xfdesktop crashes > firtst, sometimes xfce4-panel sometimes everything together. If there is smth I > can do to determine which one is causing, let me know and I'll try. Please downgrade the panel on this machine as I told you in comment #2. If Xfce is still crashing it's xfdesktop.
Downgraded to xfce4-panel-4.4.2-4.fc9.i386 and nothing changed - while I was trying to get my favourite plugins to panel (I lost the config when it crashed last time :() it has crashed again and xfdesktop crashed just a second later when I tried right-click on desktop. ps told me that following parts of xfce survived: xfce-mcs-manager xfrun4 xfwm4 All running apps survived this crash also. Now I'm trying to crash to freshly installed system - but it seems to be ok so far..
Is this rawhide? or f9? Is there anything in ~/.xsession-errors when it crashes? Is there anything in /var/log/Xorg.0.log when it crashes?
Kevin, in comment #1 Jiri says it Rawhide. I wonder if this is related to the xdg-user-dir patches in there... Jiri: Ok then, please try downgrading to the previous version of xfdesktop.
Created attachment 319846 [details] Xorg log file
Ok guy, I've downgraded to xfdesktop-4.4.2-3.fc9.i386 xfce4-panel-4.4.2-4.fc9.i386 and the same thing happened. First xfdesktop crashed and few clicks (and one alt-tab) later xfwm4 and xfce4-panel followed. Now the weird thing - as I hate metacity I tried to run xfwm4 in gnome and it didn't crash and right now I'm running xfdesktop under gnome and it seems stable also..
Created attachment 319848 [details] xsession errors from that session
Comments #8 and #10 belongs to session I was talking about in #9 :)
I tried to boot to init 3 and then started xfce with $ starxfce4 command and so far it runs ok (about 15mins) any ideas?
Quite strange. So, when did this behavior start? Can you pinpoint any other updates done just before it started being unstable? I guess you just updated to rawhide, so haven't been using it with rawhide packages for long? I guess next I would suggest: - debuginfo-install xfwm4 xfdesktop - Login as normal to Xfce. - gdb attach to the xfwm4 and xfdesktop processes. - do some clicks or the like and get it to crash. - Get a backtrace of where it died I don't see any other hints in the xsession-errors or Xorg.0.log. ;(
It started right after I updated to rawhide, so it's hard to say which specific update broke it. I'll try to run it in gdb asap.
Hi, today I tried to run XFCE from GDM and it seems stable again. As I said I'm not sure which package to blame so I think we can close this bug. Thank you for your time, Jirka