Re: Help with Xfce4 on Pinebook

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:50:42PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> I haven't used X11 in practically forever, so saying that I'm a bit rusty on this would be the understatement of the year...
> 
> With no ~/.xinitrc, basic "startx" seems to do the right thing.  When I use "startxfce4", some stuff seems to work, but it looks like the session manager is crashing:
> 
> Core was generated by `xfce4-session'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x0000f87e77d26318 in g_type_check_instance_cast ()
>    from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> [Current thread is 1 (process 1)]
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x0000f87e77d26318 in g_type_check_instance_cast ()
>    from /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
[...]

This came up about four weeks ago on this list, in a thread with the
subject "Pinebook xorg.conf".  Martin posted an identical (by symbol
names, not addresses) backtrace to yours.  The conclusion was that
this is a general xfce bug, not even specific to aarch64.


> Has anyone else gotten this to work successfully?

I haven't even tried, ctwm does the job for me.


  Harold