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feng823

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Registered: 2018-08-06

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[Solved] Desktop fail to start

Something strange happened after system upgrade last night.

The xfce3 desktop failed to start after login. The system get frozen with no respons with the start of xfce4 desktop. I tried the gnome desktop, it failed too.

Before login with slim.

I can still login with Ctrl+F2 . It works well until I run startx to run the desktop.

Last edited by feng823 (2021-03-06 03:12:38)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Desktop fail to start

Well, it's obvious: something is broken. You must fix it.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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V1del

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Re: [Solved] Desktop fail to start

Note the warning regarding slim on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

That said this kind of issue can happen if modesetting is initialized after xorg starts instead of before, in which case you will want to setup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … de_setting

seth

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Re: [Solved] Desktop fail to start

I can still login with Ctrl+F2 . It works well until I run startx to run the desktop.

I don't think it's (only) early kms, but there's been a lot of issues regarding intel lately and it's either xf86-video-intel or the power saving features.

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feng823

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Registered: 2018-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] Desktop fail to start

Well, it's obvious: something is broken. You must fix it.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Thank you for your reply. I will try to fix it later.

feng823

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Registered: 2018-08-06

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] Desktop fail to start

Well, it's obvious: something is broken. You must fix it.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

After some BIOS error, I tried "startx /usr/bib/xfce4-session" from console. It works.

Then I login with SLIM. Xfce4 works well now.

Thank you for your help