I have downgraded Xorg to 1.16. I installed xorg-xinit and I was able to start X in the minimum environment as per the Xorg wiki page. I was then hopeful that I could get X working at least, I changed .xinitrc to execute gnome but it just flashed me back to the terminal. I have reinstalled gnome and updated all the packages on the system (barring the downgraded xorg packages) but still no luck, what should I do next?
[EDIT] I have installed xfce4 which starts through startx so I think it is something wrong with my gnome...
[EDIt #2 - solution] I reinstalled catalyst and made sure to enable catalyst-hook before rebooting. And I could then start X and gnome again.
Probably unrelated but I see a lot of messages in my booting messages that I have not seen before;
...
[ OK ] Created slice user-120.slice
Starting User Manager for UID 120...
[ OK ] Started User Manager for UID 120.
Stopping User Manager for UID 120...
[ OK ] Stopped User Manager for UID 120.
[ OK ] Removed slice user-120.slice
...
Which is repeated again and again.
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