startxfce4 halts over "libexpat.so.1"

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Mon Jan 12 09:58:40 PST 2015


On 1/12/2015 18:52, PeerCorps Trust Fund wrote:
> Ran into something a few minutes ago.
> 
> On DragonflyBSD 3.8.2, Xfce starts reliably with "startxfce4". No config needed.
> 
> On DragonflyBSD 4.0.1/2, "startxfce4" halts with the following message:
> 
> failed to set mtr: Device not configured
> Shared object "libexpat.so.1" not found, required by  "libfontconfig.so.1"
> xinit: connection to X server lost
> 
> Both Xorg and Xfce were installed from binary packages.
> 
> Am I missing something?

Try "pkg upgrade -f" to make sure all packages are from the same batch.
John



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