Bug#420872: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#420872: xfdesktop4: segfaults in libc.so.6

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:38:41PM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> I've recompiled the xfdesktop4 package, after having added the
> --enable-debug option at the ./configure script.  gdb tells the same
> things as before, the only news is that xfdesktop writes lots of
> things in the console. But, IMHO, they're totally useless to the
> problem: I'm attaching the log here (`xfdesktop &> log4`)

Can you also send us /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menudefs.hook from before
any of the tests below please.

Oh, I know we talked about moving .config/xfce4 out of the way earlier
but I didn't mention .cache/xfce4 out of the way too and trying it after
that then moving it back.

Can you try:
	LANG=C xfdesktop
and see if that happens to fix it?

Also try as root:
	LANG=C update-menus
and then try running it and see if that fixes it (if it doesn't you'll
want to run update-menus without the LANG=C before it afterwards to
reset your menu).

Do you have menu installed?  Can you try removing the menu package,
dpkg --purge xfdesktop4 and then installing xfdesktop4 again too?

See if it works in that configuration.  If it does, try installing menu
again and see if it works then.

I don't quite know what's happening here but if you can try some of
these ideas we might get closer.

I am somewhat clutching at straws here though :(

Simon.

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