GNOME and Cinnamon won't start this morning

ProtoTech · 2014-06-29 17:50:13

When I woke up this morning my laptop would not start into GNOME or Cinnamon. I get the infamous "Oh no! Something has gone wrong and the system can't recover." With a log out button that does nothing. At first I wasn't sure if it was GDM causing the problem, but I was able to get into another terminal session and I installed lightdm. I was able to finally get a working desktop using MATE, but it's by no means my preference. I looked in /var/log/ but there's not much to speak for in the gdm and lightdm folders, and there is no cinnamon or GNOME logs. I'm thinking this might be from the recent ati-dri update but I could be wrong. I also tried doing a pacman update but still can't boot into GNOME or Cinnamon. Any suggestions?

kahrkunne · 2014-06-30 00:26:43

Have you tried reinstalling and rebooting? See if you can get some error logs from somewhere.

clfarron4 · 2014-06-30 16:40:23

Log-in to GNOME/Cinnamon, reboot, log-in to MATE, open up a terminal, run journalctl -b -1, wait for a load of output, have a read and post anything that looks like an error.

ProtoTech · 2014-07-01 21:11:12

Sadly I bit the bullet and reinstalled. I had a lot to do and needed to get it going, and in this situation reinstalling was the better option. I think it was because my own stupidity though. I was in the middle of installing mesa-r300-r600-radeonsi-git from AUR and had to stop in the middle of the process and I think some packages were mixed up. I didn't think any vital packages had gotten replaced yet, but they must have. Thank you anyways guys.

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#1 2014-06-29 17:50:13

GNOME and Cinnamon won't start this morning

#2 2014-06-30 00:26:43

Re: GNOME and Cinnamon won't start this morning

#3 2014-06-30 16:40:23

Re: GNOME and Cinnamon won't start this morning

#4 2014-07-01 21:11:12

Re: GNOME and Cinnamon won't start this morning

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