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#1 2016-04-15 16:14:39

alex099
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[SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Hello,
I ran an update which installed new versions of webkit2gtk and xf86-video-intel,after a reboot lightdm starts up with a blank screen,no text,no password field,i'm using the webkit2 greeter,anything I can do?.Is there any fix coming?.I've switched to sddm to type this.

Last edited by alex099 (2016-04-18 20:58:42)

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#2 2016-04-15 17:05:22

qnarkill
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Hi, i had the same, its the webkit2gtk that breaks the greeter.


to fix this
Install downgrade,  yaourt -S downgrade

then downgrade the package
sudo downgrade webkit2gtk

choose the version 2,
2.12.0.2 and if it asks to ignore answered y.
reboot, voila

Last edited by qnarkill (2016-04-15 17:28:12)

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#3 2016-04-15 17:08:54

Scimmia
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Or simply install the old package from the cache with pacman -U. No need for a wrapper script.

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#4 2016-04-15 17:30:47

qnarkill
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

perhaps swap the topic to "webkit2gtk breaks greeter / blank greeter" ?

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#5 2016-04-15 17:50:13

alex099
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Thanks everyone,i'm back at my desktop,that was close,i thought i was going to have to reinstall

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#6 2016-04-15 18:10:27

qnarkill
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

alex099 wrote:

Thanks everyone,i'm back at my desktop,that was close,i thought i was going to have to reinstall

Your welcome, actually me too but then checked /var/log/pacman.log and saw the latest updates were all webkits,
when tried pacman -U saw that the dependencies for webkit2gtk had greeter listed and downgraded it. I guess we can mark this resolved.

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#7 2016-04-15 18:45:53

alex099
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

not yet,not until there's an update that actually fixes the bug

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#8 2016-04-15 19:59:18

qnarkill
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Yes, have the devs been informed? edit_: Well they are now https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48968

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#9 2016-04-16 15:42:38

Scimmia
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Maybe I misunderstood. What "greeter" are we talking about here?

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#10 2016-04-17 07:16:27

Sarai
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

Do you mean the lightdm greeter? (just reread your post, it is lightdm)

I had this problem, there's a bug filed on github that discusses it: https://github.com/Antergos/lightdm-web … /issues/36

As long as you haven't modified the lightdm greeter conf, or don't care about your changes, you can just do:

cp /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf.pacnew /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf

Last edited by Sarai (2016-04-17 07:18:01)

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#11 2016-04-17 09:07:45

WorMzy
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

I take it everyone with this problem is using lightdm-webkit2-greeter from the AUR?

Moving to AUR Issues.


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#12 2016-04-17 14:19:45

Scimmia
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Re: [SOLVED]Latest Webkit2gtk breaks Greeter/Blank greeter

More likely is is an Antergos problem, since neither of the main people involved here could articulate what package they were using. And Sarai's link just says the problem is from people failing to merge pacnew files (user error).

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-04-17 14:20:49)

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