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archenemies

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Registered: 2018-04-19

Posts: 5

Broken DE

I was tired of the multifold of problems i had with cinnamon,  so i removed cinnamon and its support packages, and installed gnome. That broke my DE totally, i had probelms before when changing DE, but have always been able to fix it, this time not so much. When i start op my pc, and reach login screen, the resolution is all fucked up, and when i login it tells me that

" A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again"

Any advice to fixing this? And enableing gnome to work.

Thanks for the help

Last edited by archenemies (2018-05-02 13:49:08)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Broken DE

Post/look at your journal and xorg logs. And if you decide to post it here put it in [ code ] tags.

Last edited by V1del (2018-05-02 13:59:06)

archenemies

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Registered: 2018-04-19

Posts: 5

Re: Broken DE

Post/look at your journal and xorg logs. And if you decide to post it here put it in [ code ] tags.

Im quite new to arch, how do i go about posting my logs when i cant use the pc? Also how where is the xorg log?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Broken DE

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#General

Your graphics setup is broken, you are very likely to still be able to switch to a TTY with Alt+F2 or similar and look at the logs and post them with a pastebin client https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients .

Which instructions did you follow to install Arch?

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,004

Re: Broken DE

Any advice to fixing this? And enableing gnome to work.

A quick thing to try: make a new user and try to log in with that one.  If it works then it is very likely a configuration file of some sort in your current user's home and if it also doesn't work then that would point to an incompatible package and/or system-wide configuration issue.