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0xFF1E071F

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Registered: 2020-02-19

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[SOLVED]After upgrade XFCE4 failed to start

Hello ArchLinux Fam, how'r you doin'?

I have upgraded my Archlinux+Xfce+lightdm+nvidia physical system 3-4 hours ago.

After reboot, my lightdm-gtk-greeter came up and i entered my credendials. Greeter accepted my credentials and that small username/password dialog gone, but the greeter background image stayed. I can move mouse cursor. I waited a while but xfce desktop did not come.

What can i do now?

I have searched forum and google. Finally i have tried those:

1. Delete .Xauthority and .ICEauthority and reboot
2. Restore default xfce4 settings as in wiki: Restore default settings

$ mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/ ~/.config/xfce4-session-bak
$ mv ~/.config/xfce4/ ~/.config/xfce4-bak

3. Session failure solution as in wiki Session failure

rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/

4. Reinstalling gdk-pixbuf2

Those did not worked

Which logs do you need to solve this issue? Here are some logs:

journalctl -b
https://pastebin.com/68YDg3q2

lightdm.log
https://pastebin.com/LyBS4TpG

x-0.log
https://pastebin.com/H0USvEi9

x-1.log
https://pastebin.com/t4QwN1GP

Xorg-0.log
https://pastebin.com/3GRZbz1X

Xorg-1.log
https://pastebin.com/RhUUXaCu

.xinitrc

$ cat ~/.xinitrc
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto
exec xfwm4 &>> "/var/log/i3.log"

There is no `i3.log` under `/var/log`, btw.

sudo pacman -Qi xfwm4
[sudo] password for reverser:
Name            : xfwm4
Version         : 4.16.1-3
Description     : Xfce's window manager
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/start
Licenses        : GPL2
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxfce4ui  xfconf  libwnck3  libepoxy  libxpresent  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : xfwm4-themes
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2.17 MiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sun 14 Nov 2021 12:27:47 PM CET
Install Date    : Mon 15 Nov 2021 09:01:03 AM CET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Lastly; because using plank, budgie desktop was installed. So on greeter screen, i can select budgie desktop and login without any problem

Thank you for your replies

Last edited by 0xFF1E071F (2022-06-09 10:20:32)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED]After upgrade XFCE4 failed to start

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75004

0xFF1E071F

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Registered: 2020-02-19

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]After upgrade XFCE4 failed to start

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75004

Thank you for your answer. As in the link stated i have downgraded libX11. Problem solved, at least now.

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libx11-1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

jjeziorny

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Registered: 2017-02-03

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]After upgrade XFCE4 failed to start

Same issue here, also resolved by downgrading libX11