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clements

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Registered: 2015-05-24

Posts: 15

Cinnamon crashes at startup

Hello guys,
I installed ArchLinux on my MSI Gaming Laptop (with shitty Nvidia's Optimus technology) and I'm having issues with Cinnamon, it crashes at startup and asks me if I want it to restart, if I answer yes, it doesn't work and re-ask me the same thing, if I answer no I only have access to a beautiful background.

Here is the part of my journalctl where I think things become dirty
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BpMbdXEn

I use bumblebee because of optimus if this can help.
Gnome seems to work fine.

I made the same install on a desktop yesterday without any issue.

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by clements (2015-05-24 17:02:19)

sosonok

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Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 70

Re: Cinnamon crashes at startup

No logs available, but same issue here. Just a few days ago in a fresh install. 64 bits, nvdia driver.

booms8

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Registered: 2014-07-03

Posts: 2

Re: Cinnamon crashes at startup

Did anyone get a solution to this? I've run into the same problem, seemingly out of nowhere

sosonok

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Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 70

Re: Cinnamon crashes at startup

Try reinstalling gdk-pixbuf2.

DarkCerberus

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From: Holsworthy, Devon

Registered: 2011-12-31

Posts: 252

Re: Cinnamon crashes at startup

How old is your Gaming laptop? If it's modern then maybe try intel-ucode this fixed a lot of problems for me on Intel Core i7 after installing it run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg - also if you can enter the bios there should be an option to switch graphics cards to nvidia or amd/intel the in-built graphics card. It should run Arch Linux with the latest kernel it seems unusual this problem.... If you don't have intel and use a AMD processor try find something similar to intel-ucode....

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Chazza

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Re: Cinnamon crashes at startup

If you don't have intel and use a AMD processor try find something similar to intel-ucode....

For AMD processors the microcode updates are available in linux-firmware, which is installed as part of the base system. No further action is needed.

For Intel processors, install the intel-ucode package, and continue reading.