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Humuch

Member

Registered: 2019-08-15

Posts: 5

Panel is reset after every restart

After the recent update I restarted my computer and the panel was gone. Fine, I thought, I'll set it up again. But when running

xfce4-panel

, I received something along the lines of

Failed to load shared library: libxfconf.so.2

and exit. I had he xfconf package installed, but it only provides

libxfconf.so

,

libxfconf.so.3

and

libxfconf.so.3.0.0

. So I created the necessary package as a link to one of these librarys. But now, every time the panel is restarted, all settings are gone. Even when running

xfce4-panel -s

beforehand.

My distribution is Manjaro.

Maybe this is a similar error?
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13133

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,491

Re: Panel is reset after every restart

Hello and welcome.

It looks like xfce4-panel wasn't properly updated. It's not linked to the correct libraries. I'm not too familiar with manjaro, but are you using the xfce-4panel packages directly from the repository - or some other packaged product?

It might be that xfce4-panel needs to be recompilied to use the newer xfconf libraries.

Can you post back the following:

ldd /usr/bin/xfce4-panel | grep xfconf
pacman -Qi xfce4-panel
pacman -Qi xfconf

Also, try running xfce4-panel in debug mode? To do so run the following commands:

xfce4-panel -q
PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel

...and post back the output that is generated.

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Humuch

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Registered: 2019-08-15

Posts: 5

Re: Panel is reset after every restart

Ok, I fixed it by removing the xfce4-panel-compiz package and installing the xfce4-panel package manually. The panel now also has the new look.

Anyways, here is the output. The panel package is older than xfconf, so I guess the distributor forgot it while rolling the update.

I'm assuming you want the output without the linked fake libxfconf.so.2

$ ldd /usr/bin/xfce4-panel | grep xfconf
	libxfconf-0.so.2 => not found
$ pacman -Qi xfce4-panel
Name            : xfce4-panel-compiz
Version         : 4.12.2-1
Description     : Panel for the Xfce desktop environment with fixes for Compiz
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.xfce.org/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : xfce4-panel=4.12.2
Depends On      : exo  garcon  libxfce4ui  libwnck  hicolor-icon-theme  desktop-file-utils
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : xfce4-clipman-plugin  xfce4-mixer
Optional For    : thunar  xfce4-power-manager
Conflicts With  : xfce4-panel
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 4.05 MiB
Packager        : Bernhard Landauer <oberon@manjaro.org>
Build Date      : Sun 04 Mar 2018 10:53:25 AM CET
Install Date    : Fri 10 May 2019 06:58:38 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ pacman -Qi xfconf
Name            : xfconf
Version         : 4.14.1-1
Description     : Flexible, easy-to-use configuration management system
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.xfce.org/
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxfce4util
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : libxfce4ui  mousepad  xfce4-appfinder  xfce4-session  xfce4-settings  xfwm4
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 1062.00 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Mon 12 Aug 2019 12:47:43 AM CEST
Install Date    : Wed 14 Aug 2019 12:50:49 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel
xfce4-panel: error while loading shared libraries: libxfconf.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory                                 

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,491

Re: Panel is reset after every restart

I'm not familiar with the xfce4-panel-compiz package, but perhaps it just needs to be rebuilt to use the newer xfconf libraries. But otherwise, unofficially patched Xfce products will need to be looked at by the developer who created the package - there is nothing that we can do to help.

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Humuch

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Registered: 2019-08-15

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Re: Panel is reset after every restart

No problem, as I said I fixed it.