ports/173393: xfce4 window manager broken

[CeDeROM]

The following reply was made to PR ports/173393; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl>
To: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/173393: xfce4 window manager broken
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:40:25 +0100

 I have reinstalled FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 with the xfce4 binary packages (not
 the ports sources) and the situation is the same.
 
 I have removed all config from ~/.config that had to do with xfce4 and
 still the problem persists. I have even renamed the ~/.config to have
 situation clear about the possible configuration issues. I have used
 default xfce4 configuration. The problem still persist.
 
 How can I redirect diagnostic information to a file that I could
 attach here? Where are the terminal messages are going to? Here are
 some of them:
 
 nautilus:3908 coud not load SM state file
 
 nautilus:3908: failed to get current CK session:
 GDBUS.Error:org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: unable to
 lookup session information for process 3908
 
 xfdesktop:3905: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_file_get_path: assertion
 "G_IS_FILE (file)' failed <-this shows 4 times in line
 
 nautilus:3908: WARNING can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
 
 nautilus:3908: WARNING can not calculate _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
 
 nautilus:3908: WARNING can not get _NET_WORKAREA
 
 nautilus:3908: WARNIING: can not determine workarea, guessing at
 layout xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 35 (Rsouece temporairly unavailable)
 on X server :0.0.
 
 xfdesktop:3905: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_file_get_path: assertion
 "G_IS_FILE (file)' failed <-this shows 4 times in line
 
 xfsettingsd: No window manager registered on screen 0.
 
 (...)
 
 So there are two issues:
 1. Not possible to get virtual desktops number, and virtual desktops
 does not work.
 2. Not possible to start Window Manager, which is NAUTILUS, not
 xfce4-wm, which does not work.
 3. There is a problem with SessionManager reported by nautilus/GDBus
 
 Some (hidden?) dependencies seems to fail... so simple reinstall of
 xfce4 and its components does not reveal the problem.
 
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 CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info