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#1 2021-06-15 19:33:34

kyledavis124
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Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

I did not update arch in about a week or two. I didn't realize anything was a miss till I could not connect to any repo. I knew I had to update.
I ran the command `sudo pacman -Syu`

Everything was fine till right before my job interview when my Bluetooth headphones died. After changing my sound output to my other headphones, I could not get any sound. I tried changing devices; same story.
I tried restarting my computer and this weird graphical issue appeared. I have sound again. After login, my background image soon disappears. I have a program that automatically opens my web browser, Brave. It's missing that border around it with the window controls.
I can't close the window. I can still open settings somehow. I don't have a taskbar or vital desktops. My background is just black. I can still open the terminal at least. But I can't close it. It's like cinnamon crashed but the settings still open and I can change my theme. I changed the background image and nothing happened; still black.

I tried switching to kernel-lts and same issue.

The temp fix is to, at login, select cinnamon (software render).

I am using lightDM and cinnamon.

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I have searched the forum but only found KDE and Nvidia issues. Does someone know how to fix this?

System:

Linux archdesktop.kyledavis.dev 5.12.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:34:50 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
Radeon RX 580
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu

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#2 2021-06-15 19:45:51

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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

Do you have early kms added? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start
Many graphical issues disappear with that.

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#3 2021-06-15 20:03:49

kyledavis124
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

icar wrote:

Do you have early kms added? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start
Many graphical issues disappear with that.

This is the contents of my mkinitcpio.conf

https://pastebin.com/byW4SjnD

I have 2 kernels. In case the live kernel causes issues like this. I get the same issues on kernel-lts. 

I ran mkinitcpio -g kernel and mkinitcpio -g kernel-lts as without -g it tells me to use -g.

I tried mkinitcpio -p kernel and kernel-lts but got an error telling me I don't have a preset. After a reboot, I get the same issue.

*Correction* I ran with sudo and -P and it correctly generated. Now trying to reboot.

*Update* This did not solve my problem but thank you for your advice. :^)

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#4 2021-06-15 20:17:39

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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

Please post a complete system journal ("sudo journalctl -b") and your pacman log.

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#5 2021-06-15 20:35:13

kyledavis124
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

seth wrote:

Please post a complete system journal ("sudo journalctl -b") and your pacman log.


Here you go.

Journal

https://pastebin.com/2wFTc2g6


Pacman

https://pastebin.com/0Dg5BgiA

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#6 2021-06-15 20:52:17

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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

Jun 15 16:08:36 archdesktop.kyledavis.dev cinnamon-session[927]: WARNING: t+1.15890s: App 'cinnamon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 15 16:08:36 archdesktop.kyledavis.dev cinnamon-session[927]: CRITICAL: t+1.15919s: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

But it doesn't say why => check coredumpctl

Obviously, cinnamon moved from 4.8 to 5.0 in that update. Can you log into a cinnamon session for a new user? (Chances are there's some incompatible config)

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#7 2021-06-15 21:03:03

kyledavis124
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

seth wrote:
Jun 15 16:08:36 archdesktop.kyledavis.dev cinnamon-session[927]: WARNING: t+1.15890s: App 'cinnamon.desktop' respawning too quickly
Jun 15 16:08:36 archdesktop.kyledavis.dev cinnamon-session[927]: CRITICAL: t+1.15919s: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

But it doesn't say why => check coredumpctl

Obviously, cinnamon moved from 4.8 to 5.0 in that update. Can you log into a cinnamon session for a new user? (Chances are there's some incompatible config)


I did not see anything interesting in coredumpctl but here.

https://pastebin.com/8XJ5Kngc

I tried creating a new user and got the same issue.


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useradd test -m

passwd test

sudo systemctl restart display-manager


login as test

same issue.

*EDIT* Even with a full system reboot.

Last edited by kyledavis124 (2021-06-15 21:08:53)

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#8 2021-06-15 21:17:12

seth
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

Possibly related, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71147
Apparently cinnamon uses it's own NIH tool to inspect logs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cinnamon#Debugging
You could also try whether https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cinnam … fter_crash prints anything useful.

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#9 2021-06-18 16:06:34

kyledavis124
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

seth wrote:

Possibly related, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71147
Apparently cinnamon uses it's own NIH tool to inspect logs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cinnamon#Debugging
You could also try whether https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cinnam … fter_crash prints anything useful.


Sorry for the late feedback. Life.

Thanks for your help. I'm closer to identifying my issue. Using the command, cinnamon-looking-glass, I can see the cinnamon logs. Cinnamon is losing connection to the Dbus. That's the error. The menu lets me restart cinnamon which corrects the issue. The problem now is to find I why cinnamon is losing the connection to the Dbus and how to correct it. I going to read the post and see if I can correct my issue. I will mark solved if that is the case.

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#10 2021-06-18 16:47:09

kyledavis124
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

To help others who think cinnamon has crashed, ctrl + alt + esc will restart it. This is a tmp fix. It does not prevent it from crashing.

Jun 18 11:56:01 archdesktop.kyledavis.dev cinnamon-killer-daemon[12236]: Bound Cinnamon restart to <Control><Alt>Escape.

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#11 2021-06-18 18:35:00

seth
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Re: Recent Update Broke Cinnamon Desktop.

If you need further help, please make sure to share the logs you got.

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