Well it looks like this. I am using Xfce4, and at random time it stops, Applications started already are working fine, but the panel stops, the desktop menu stops, it seems to me that whole xfce stops, anything i can do is CTRL-BACKSPACE and login again, but now the cpu load is 100%, then i'm checking what is going on. I see that xfce-panel is running two times and one of them is "eating" my whole cpu. I'm killing it, but this doesen't change xfce from stoping... If i could now only how to see xfce4 log to see what it's doing when it hangs i could post it here... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Xfce4 (without main taskbar, with taskbar panel plugin, systemload, netload, calendar) 2. Work 3. And it just keeps on stopping Actual Results: It hangs
Try removing panel plugins one by one, to see if one of them is causing the problem. Good candidates are weather plugin and the mail checker.
Well I used Mail Checker... for now it seems to work fine, but I just logged and left it for 15 min, so I don't know if this only happens when work on for some time period, maybe that's it, maybe I just work with "eating" cpu progs for some time and check if it will hang...
PS. Is there a way to see a log from xfce4? To se what it's running and what it's doing?
(In reply to comment #3) > PS. Is there a way to see a log from xfce4? To se what it's running and what > it's doing? > Not really. Errors and warnings will be send to the console, so if you use gdm or something those messages should show up in ~/.xsession-errors.
(In reply to comment #2) > Well I used Mail Checker... for now it seems to work fine, but I just logged and > left it for 15 min, so I don't know if this only happens when work on for some > time period, maybe that's it, maybe I just work with "eating" cpu progs for some > time and check if it will hang... > Btw, are you using the mail checker for POP3 email?
Pop3.I disabled mailchecker and I'm working in xfce for a few days now and everything seems to work fine... Maybe this big report thingy was a little falstart :]. .. BTW. Is this an mailchecker-plugin error or maybe a xfce-panel with mail-checker error? I'm that type a guy that likes to everything work fine, I mean everything, so I would like to now what is really causing the problem..
(In reply to comment #6) > Pop3.I disabled mailchecker and I'm working in xfce for a few days now and > everything seems to work fine... Maybe this big report thingy was a little > falstart :]. .. BTW. Is this an mailchecker-plugin error or maybe a xfce-panel > with mail-checker error? I'm that type a guy that likes to everything work fine, > I mean everything, so I would like to now what is really causing the problem.. > A bit of both. Mostly the mailcheckers fault for blocking when trying to get a connection. This is why the feature is still experimental. In the end I think mail checking should be a separate daemon (or mail client) using a systray icon. It's also a problem with the panel design that a plugin can so easily crash or block the panel. This is a much harder problem to solve, since it is also makes the panel faster and lighter. I'm thinking about a solution for Xfce 4.4. I'm also changing the bug to an enhancement request.
This can't really be fixed for 4.2, but the new development version should no longer have this problem.