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cRaZy-bisCuiT

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Registered: 2013-08-13

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[SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

Dear Community,

I installed cinnamon-2.0.14-3. After I try to start it via startx (.xinit.rc includes exec cinnamon-session) Cinnamon crashs, let me know that it runs in fail safe mode and ask me if I want to restart it. In the end I don't have any toolbar and now window maner running. All I can see is a grey desktop wallpaper. I can start a terminal with STRG+T.

I have xfce4 and i3 installed as well. Could that cause the trouble?

All of the posible solutions I found didn't work for me, like deleting  .local/share/cinnamon or ~/.config/cinnamon-session .... Do you have any idea how to start analysing this case?

Many thanks in advance,

cRaZy

EDIT: I had Xcompmgr running. I set it to start after loading X via ~/.xprofile. By deleting the entry to start it I fixed my cinnamon issue. Thanks people!

Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT (2014-04-10 18:11:13)

nullified

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Registered: 2013-12-09

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

What are the actual errors when it crashes? Is your problem related to this other recent cinnamon problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179788? Do any of the issues there pertain to your problem?

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cRaZy-bisCuiT

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

Actually I don't have testing enabled. Does that mean my case is different?

Where do I find the cinnamon log files? The Error messages just let know it need to be restarted etc ...

To be honest I remember I never manged to run it in the past but I didn't remove it. I thought an update may fix it any time soon but it seems like it didn't.

Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT (2014-04-10 16:05:23)

nullified

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

.xinitrc

Do you have .xinit.rc? Rename it. It's in your home directory, correct?

Edit: you have xfce and i3 installed, do they work fine? Can you post your .xinitrc in code tags

Last edited by nullified (2014-04-10 16:10:36)

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cRaZy-bisCuiT

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

I am sorry, of course it is .xinitrc The code in it is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

# Make sure this is before the 'exec' command or it won't be sourced.
[ -f /etc/xprofile ] && source /etc/xprofile
[ -f ~/.xprofile ] && source ~/.xprofile

exec cinnamon-session
# exec i3
#exec gnome-session-cinnamon
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

i3 and xfce4 work fine!

Somebody in this thread has the same problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=179375

He said:

fixed by installing lib32-nvidia driver-* you would to remove mesa-libgl as well.

I don't know what exactly he ment by that. Installing lib32-nvidia-libgl didn't do the trick for me.

EDIT: When I try to restart cinnamon via cinnamon --replace I get the following error:

error another window manager is already running on screen 0

How to fix that?

Last edited by cRaZy-bisCuiT (2014-04-10 18:07:23)

cRaZy-bisCuiT

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon-2.0.14-3 crashs after login

EDIT: I had Xcompmgr running. I set it to start after loading X via ~/.xprofile. By deleting the entry to start it I fixed my cinnamon issue. Thanks people!