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A.I. BOT

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Registered: 2007-04-01

Posts: 88

Last updated messed my system ....

I dont know what happened. I ran "sudo pacman -Syu", a big list of packages were to be upgraded (mainly gnome things, I use XFCE however). All of a sudden the terminal closes unexpectantly and my computer rebooted.

Once it rebooted, error messages on the Arch bootscreen were complaining that a few daemons were missing, namely dbus. So I had to manually connect to my wifi card, and re-run "sudo pacman -Syuf"... this fixed all my issues, rebooted fine, no dbus errors.

However, once I logged into XFCE... I no longer have a desktop, its black...why?

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6569 … 68sur1.png

Any idea on how to figure out what went wrong and why I dont have a desktop anymore?

Thanks.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Last updated messed my system ....

Maybe you got affected by this:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 48#p352248.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Last updated messed my system ....

maybe http://www.archlinux.org/news/385/ ?

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bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Last updated messed my system ....

I think the same as wonder - it's the dbus update. It's good idea to read the news... there's even a rss feed.

A.I. BOT

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Registered: 2007-04-01

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Re: Last updated messed my system ....

Yeah, I reinstalled dbus from plain text console... went fine, no errors. But still, I have no desktop... just black. Is this to do with the dbus package itself affecting the XFCE desktop or did something get removed?

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,680

Re: Last updated messed my system ....

I installed all those updates on my XFCE system today, too, and no crash with dbus, so it must impact different hardware in different ways.  Don't know if it matters, but I always install all updates from the console, and don't use any display manager.  Maybe you can create another user to see if it works that way, or rename your hidden xfce config folders and let them rebuild themselves on xfce login.

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oz

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Re: Last updated messed my system ....

Tried changing the config files (renaming the folder), etc no luck. However... when I run "xfdesktop &" in a terminal... my desktop shows ... so its like startxfce4 command isent starting xfdesktop?

Thanks.

bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Last updated messed my system ....

If it is so, you can try to turn on the "save session" (or how is that thing called in xfce), so that xfce will remember that it should run it on each login.