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josealb77

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Registered: 2013-06-23

Posts: 90

[SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

Hello,
After "pacman -Syu" I can't login to MATE, SLIM just say "failed to execute login command". I can login to Openbox and Enlightenment without any problem.
These were the packages upgraded (from /var/log/pacman.log):

[2014-04-15 01:23] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2014-04-15 01:23] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-04-15 01:23] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded glib2 (2.38.2-1 -> 2.40.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded at-spi2-core (2.10.2-1 -> 2.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded atk (2.10.0-1 -> 2.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded at-spi2-atk (2.10.2-1 -> 2.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gdk-pixbuf2 (2.30.6-1 -> 2.30.7-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (2.24.22-1 -> 2.24.23-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded pango (1.36.3-1 -> 1.36.3-2)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk3 (3.10.7-1 -> 3.12.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gmime (2.6.18-1 -> 2.6.20-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gsettings-desktop-schemas (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded glib-networking (2.38.2-1 -> 2.40.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libsoup (2.44.2-1 -> 2.46.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded totem-plparser (3.10.1-1 -> 3.10.2-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded dconf (0.18.0-1 -> 0.20.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libtracker-sparql (0.16.4-1 -> 1.0.0-2)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libsecret (0.16-2 -> 0.18-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gvfs (1.18.3-3 -> 1.20.1-2)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded brasero (3.10.0-1 -> 3.11.3-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded fontsproto (2.1.2-1 -> 2.1.3-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gcr (3.10.1-3 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded glibmm (2.38.1-1 -> 2.40.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-packagekit (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-themes-standard (3.10.0-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gobject-introspection (1.38.0-1 -> 1.40.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gtk2 (2.24.22-1 -> 2.24.23-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gtkmm3 (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded gucharmap (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded js (17.0.0-1 -> 24.2.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded json-glib (0.16.2-1 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-curl (7.35.0-1 -> 7.36.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-nss (3.15.5-1 -> 3.16-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-flashplugin (11.2.202.346-1 -> 11.2.202.350-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libgnome-keyring (3.10.1-2 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libplist (1.10-1 -> 1.11-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] installed libusbmuxd (1.0.9-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libimobiledevice (1.1.5-2 -> 1.1.6-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded libsystemd (212-2 -> 212-3)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.14.1-1-ARCH
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 3.14.1-1-ARCH
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [block]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: smsmdtv
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2014-04-15 01:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.14-5 -> 3.14.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-headers (3.14-5 -> 3.14.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded logrotate (3.8.7-1 -> 3.8.7-3)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded man-db (2.6.6-1 -> 2.6.7.1-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (212-2 -> 212-3)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] installed js17 (17.0.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded polkit (0.112-1 -> 0.112-2)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded pygobject-devel (3.10.2-2 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded python-gobject (3.10.2-2 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded python2-gobject (3.10.2-2 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded rest (0.7.90-2 -> 0.7.91-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded shadow (4.1.5.1-7 -> 4.1.5.1-9)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (212-2 -> 212-3)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded telepathy-glib (0.22.1-1 -> 0.24.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded upower (0.9.23-2 -> 0.99.0-2)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded usbmuxd (1.0.8-2 -> 1.0.9-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded vte-common (0.34.9-1 -> 0.36.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk (2.2.5-2 -> 2.4.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded yelp-xsl (3.10.1-1 -> 3.12.0-1)
[2014-04-15 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded yelp (3.10.2-1 -> 3.12.0-1)

I don't see any change in SLIM, .xinitrc nor slim.conf, so, I blame one or more of the packages above, but, which one?
I don't see any valuable information in slim.log just "slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections." and I don't know more files or logs to look at before downgrading them all one by one.

What can I do?

Last edited by josealb77 (2014-04-15 09:37:53)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,321

Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

SLiM logs to the systemd journal - use journalctl -b to see if anything interesting is logged there. Also see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Journalctl#Journal

Also be sure nothing happened to your ~/.xinitrc - pacman wouldn't touch it, but maybe something to a file that is sourced from your xinitrc.

josealb77

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Registered: 2013-06-23

Posts: 90

Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

This is the 'journalctl -b' output after trying to login to MATE:

-- Logs begin at lun 2013-11-25 23:53:48 CET, end at mar 2014-04-15 05:03:49 CEST. --
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Paths.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Paths.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Timers.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Timers.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Sockets.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Sockets.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Basic System.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Basic System.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Default.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Default.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Startup finished in 85ms.

No errors.
And this is the output after logining to Openbox:

-- Logs begin at lun 2013-11-25 23:53:48 CET, end at mar 2014-04-15 05:03:49 CEST. --
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Paths.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Paths.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Timers.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Timers.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Sockets.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Sockets.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Basic System.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Basic System.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Starting Default.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Reached target Default.
abr 15 05:02:48 ArchLinux systemd[512]: Startup finished in 85ms.
abr 15 05:03:46 ArchLinux org.a11y.Bus[593]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
abr 15 05:03:47 ArchLinux org.a11y.Bus[593]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
abr 15 05:03:47 ArchLinux org.a11y.atspi.Registry[601]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
abr 15 05:03:47 ArchLinux org.a11y.atspi.Registry[601]: ** (at-spi2-registryd:604): WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
abr 15 05:03:47 ArchLinux org.a11y.atspi.Registry[601]: ** (at-spi2-registryd:604): WARNING **: Unable to register client with session manager
abr 15 05:03:49 ArchLinux pulseaudio[578]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Nevertheless in Openbox it all works fine.

My .xinitrc is like it was before the update:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

#if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
#  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
#    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
#  done
#  unset f
#fi

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec mate-session
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

exec $1


xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0" 

I've tried to comment "exect $1" and uncomment "exec mate-session" in order to start MATE with "startx", I've commented the two last lines, etc, etc... but nothing changed.

In https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Jo … emd_errors the first thing to do is "systemctl --state=failed" and this is the output:

[josealb77@ArchLinux ~]$ systemctl --state=failed
0 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

No services failed to start.
What more can I try?

superchango

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From: Tenochtitlan

Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 133

Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

I confirm this. same combo: Mate + Slim, Fluxbox works without problem.

My .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
exec mate-session

And my Xorg.0.log:

http://pastebin.com/DPzwYCcL

I can start Fluxbox from Slim or with startx. Mate doesn't start with any of those.

I have a nettop Atom 1.6 ghz with a Intel 945 GME, running Arch 32 bits.

Last edited by superchango (2014-04-15 03:56:45)

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clfarron4

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

@josealb77: Please wait whilst the mate-power-manager package is rebuilt against the new version of upower. See the bottom half of this page.

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josealb77

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

Ok, updating to mate-session-manager 1.8.1-2 solve the problem.
Thank you all for your help.

clfarron4

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE: pacman -Syu and MATE does not work anymore

@josealb77: Indeed this has now solved it for me as well.

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