[Solved] XFCE freezing after some use

febin121 · 2015-11-10 11:14:59

Hello everyone,
i am new to xfce and archlinux. My xfce DE freezes after some use. Applications which are already opened is not affected by this issue. i.e i can use those applications which were opened before the freeze. Once frozen i cannot launch any new app from the launchers or from the menu but i can access already opened tabs. The only solution to it is logout and logging in. Please help me to solve this issue.
thank you

ToZ · 2015-11-10 13:00:37

Hello and welcome. A few questions:

Is there anything in your journal when this starts happening?

If you try to open an application from a terminal window after the freeze, does it work? If not, are any error messages displayed?

Which menu are you referring to? (the applications menu plugin, whisker menu...). Do the apps start if you right-click on the desktop and use that menu?

How do you start Xfce? Are you using a display manager or starting via startx or startxfce4?

febin121 · 2015-11-10 14:03:48

Thank you for replying

From last 50 lines of journalctl i saw this:

ov 10 18:28:51 localhost root[1500]: ACPI group/action undefined: video/brightnessup / BRTUP
Nov 10 18:28:52 localhost dbus-daemon[527]: Reloaded configuration
Nov 10 18:28:52 localhost dbus-daemon[527]: Reloaded configuration
Nov 10 18:28:52 localhost sudo[1079]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 10 18:29:10 localhost sudo[1507]:    febin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/febin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -S python2-pyqt
Nov 10 18:29:10 localhost sudo[1507]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 10 18:29:23 localhost sudo[1507]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 10 18:31:31 localhost org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Cache1[432]: (tumblerd:1552): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-raw-thumbnailer.so": libopenrawgnome.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Nov 10 18:31:31 localhost org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Cache1[432]: (tumblerd:1552): tumbler-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-odf-thumbnailer.so": libgsf-1.so.114: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost dhclient[744]: DHCPREQUEST on enp0s20u2 to 192.168.42.129 port 67
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost dhclient[744]: DHCPACK from 192.168.42.129
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    address 192.168.42.42
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    plen 24 (255.255.255.0)
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    gateway 192.168.42.129
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    server identifier 192.168.42.129
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    lease time 3600
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>    nameserver '192.168.42.129'
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost NetworkManager[329]: <info>  (enp0s20u2): DHCPv4 state changed bound -> bound
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost dbus[325]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost dbus[325]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
Nov 10 18:37:16 localhost dhclient[744]: bound to 192.168.42.42 -- renewal in 1214 seconds.
Nov 10 18:41:46 localhost dhcpcd[339]: enp0s20u2: adding route to 192.168.42.0/24
Nov 10 18:41:46 localhost dhcpcd[339]: if_route (ADD): File exists
Nov 10 18:41:46 localhost dhcpcd[339]: enp0s20u2: adding default route via 192.168.42.129
Nov 10 18:41:46 localhost dhcpcd[339]: enp0s20u2: removing default route via 192.168.42.129
Nov 10 18:47:54 localhost sudo[2349]:    febin : a password is required ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/aur-conkyforecast ; USER=root ; COMMAND=list /usr/bin/pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/PKGDEST.0Gh/conkyforecast-2.24-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Nov 10 18:47:57 localhost sudo[2351]:    febin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/aur-conkyforecast ; USER=root ; COMMAND=validate
Nov 10 18:47:57 localhost sudo[2352]:    febin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/aur-conkyforecast ; USER=root ; COMMAND=list /usr/bin/pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/PKGDEST.0Gh/conkyforecast-2.24-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Nov 10 18:47:57 localhost sudo[2353]:    febin : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/aur-conkyforecast ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman --color auto -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-febin/PKGDEST.0Gh/conkyforecast-2.24-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Nov 10 18:47:57 localhost sudo[2353]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 10 18:48:00 localhost sudo[2353]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Nov 10 18:54:23 localhost dhclient[744]: receive_packet failed on enp0s20u2: Network is down
Nov 10 18:54:24 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 7
Nov 10 18:54:24 localhost kernel:

No, launching apps from terminal does not work
It shows below error.

No protocol specified
Error: cannot open display: 0.0

I meant the application menu. No. It does not launch anything.

I start xfce4 by adding

exec dbus-launch startxfce4 &>>/dev/null

in $HOME/.xinitrc file
I also have SLiM installed as login manager

Last edited by febin121 (2015-11-10 14:05:55)

ToZ · 2015-11-10 17:42:29

A couple of suggestions:

1. Try setting your host name to something other than "localhost". From 'man hostnamectl':

...If a static hostname is set, and is valid (something other than localhost)...

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … e_hostname

2. In Arch, dbus has changed recently and I don't believe dbus-launch is required any more. Here is my .xinitrc file which properly starts dbus and Xfce:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

[ -f ~/.xsession-errors ] && mv ~/.xsession-errors ~/.xsession-errors.old
startxfce4 > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1

...note that I also create and use a ~/.xsession-errors file to help with logging and troubleshooting. For dbus environment setup, the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-system-user.sh file must be sourced (which is handled in the first block of code in the .xinitrc file).

febin121 · 2015-11-14 08:11:25

Thank you really much ToZ. After changing the hostname there is no freezing issue.
Thank you really much

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