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anta40

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[SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

This afternoon I did a system update (one among them is xf86-video-intel).
After the update, I reboot my laptop and tried to log in again (XFCE is my default DE).
Then a blank black screen appeared, and suddenly I was thrown back into KDM.
I tried this several times (also as root), but still failed.
But I had no problem launching KDE or Fluxbox.

Any idea?

Last edited by anta40 (2011-12-06 13:28:39)

anta40

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

BTW, I think I found an interesting thing:
One of the dependencies of xf86-video-intel is xcb-util.
Now while I'm on Blackbox, I cannot run Thunar. The error is:

thunar: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-util-so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I check using pacman: pacman -Ss libxcb
Both libxcb 1.7-2 and lib32-libxcb 1.7-2 are already installed.

KingX

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Registered: 2010-03-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

Check your xorg log in /var/log/xorg.0.log and see if there are any errors (denoted by EE). What other packages were updated by pacman? Did you try rolling back to the previous version of the xf86-video-intel (the previous package should be in your cache at /var/cache/pacman/pkg/)? Try reversing that update if you think its related to the video driver or if you see errors relating to video driver in xorg's log.

Edit: I doubt Thunar by itself would prevent Xfce from starting.. but I could be wrong.

Last edited by KingX (2011-12-06 09:43:08)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

be sure you are fully up to date.  you need xcb-util 0.3.8-1

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anta40

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

@KingX
Umm... this is my Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/FQKgAhP1
I don't think I could find any error on it.
BTW, I just ran a "pacman -Scc". How do I downgrade a package?

@wonder
Yes, I'm fully up to date

[anta40@panopticon ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: intel-tbb: local (2011.7.256-2) is newer than community (4.0_20111003-1)
there is nothing to do
[anta40@panopticon ~]$

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

can you run from kde  LD_DEBUG=files thunar > thunar.log 2>&1 and paste the log?

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anta40

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

@wonder
Sure: http://pastebin.com/GjpmNgu8

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

file=libxcb-util.so.0 [0];  needed by /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 [0]
thunar: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-util.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

how come xcb-util 0.3.8 is missing?

pacman -S xcb-util

Last edited by wonder (2011-12-06 12:25:30)

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anta40

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

@wonder
Ah I think I remember how. Weeks ago I tried to install awesome (and not succed), from here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13916

I installed a bunch of xcb-util-*-git.

[anta40@panopticon ~]$ sudo pacman -S xcb-util
Password:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: xcb-util and xcb-util-git are in conflict (xcb-util=0.3.8). Remove xcb-util-git? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: xcb-util-image-git: requires xcb-util-git
:: xcb-util-keysyms-git: requires xcb-util-git
:: xcb-util-wm-git: requires xcb-util-git
[anta40@panopticon ~]$

So what do I have to do now?

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

pacman -Rdd xcb-util-image-git xcb-util-keysyms-git xcb-util-keysyms-git xcb-util-wm-git xcb-util-git
pacman -S xcb-util
testdb

the last command is see if you have missing dependencies

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anta40

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start XFCE after update

@wonders
Gee thanks. It works
Oh BTW, in my case, xcb-util-keysyms is also needed (for vlc).