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lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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[SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

I upgraded quite a few packages two days ago, none of which were openbox. When I rebooted, openbox didn't correctly load. I don't know how to describe the problem, but I can't seem to open anything from my menus, or run anything in openbox. However, my autostart file seems to load everything and wicd connects so I can use the ttys and browse.

I don't know where to start troubleshooting this. I've looked back at my /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, sorted by time to see the last packages that got updated. I downgraded certain packages one by one to see if anything specifically broke my system, but I had no luck. I downgraded linux, linux headers, xorg, xorg-common, and udev.

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by lexan (2012-02-05 19:52:46)

skunktrader

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

I've looked back at my /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, sorted by time to see the last packages that got updated.

This is not related to your problem, but it is easier to look at /var/log/pacman.log to see which packages were upgraded.

lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

This is not related to your problem, but it is easier to look at /var/log/pacman.log to see which packages were upgraded.

Thank you! Here is the output of the last couple of days for pacman.log
http://pastebin.com/hWi9djh1

bt

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

Just a suggestion... openbox.sh is now just openbox. Read the wiki on openbox to make the changes suggested there.

b4data

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

openbox.sh is now just openbox.

You mean autostart.sh is now just autostart

lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

openbox.sh is now just openbox.

You mean autostart.sh is now just autostart

Yes, it is just autostart now ;-)
I double checked, and all this seems to be fine. I haven't even touched openbox main configs since it updated back in August.

Is there an error log for when I log in?
I log in to openbox via slim, and then autostart should* start wicd, cairo-compmgr, nitrogen, conky, and tint2.
My wicd client seems to load because I can get on the internet (via elinks), part of my conky loads but not my lua rings script; nitrogen, cairo, and tint2 don't seem to load. When I right click, I still have access to my OB menu, but cannot launch anything.

Last edited by lexan (2012-02-02 22:48:40)

lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

I don't even know where to start with this.

What logs can I look at that can show me what's going on when I log in?

desm0tes

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

cp  ~/.config/openbox  ~/.config/openbox.bak
rm  ~/.config/openbox/*
cp /etc/xdg/openbox/{rc.xml,menu.xml,autostart,environment} ~/.config/openbox

and then reboot.
Gives you a "fresh" openbox and you'll see whether your configs are broken or openbox itself. If it works, add your apps to autostart to check for any problems.

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lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

cp  ~/.config/openbox  ~/.config/openbox.bak
rm  ~/.config/openbox/*
cp /etc/xdg/openbox/{rc.xml,menu.xml,autostart,environment} ~/.config/openbox

and then reboot.
Gives you a "fresh" openbox and you'll see whether your configs are broken or openbox itself. If it works, add your apps to autostart to check for any problems.

This didn't work for me.
Applications that are installed and are in the menu do nothing when I click to launch them in the menu. Applications that aren't isntalled gives me the openbox error "failed to execute child process..."

lexan

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Registered: 2011-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

It turned out that it was my composite manager that was giving me problems. I was using cairo-compmgr and it wasn't playing nice with cairo-xcb (which I had previously installed for awesome). I removed cairo-xcb and installed cairo and everything now seems fine. I ditched cairo-compmgr for xcompmgr-dana now.

Thank you for all the replies.. it looks like I was looking in the wrong places at first; now I'm "out of the dark" ;-)

doug piston

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgraded System, Openbox now won't load after log in

Re-comple all carios packages and OB will work for you once again.

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