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fabrixx

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[solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

I added Gnome unstable repositories from here

https://gitlab.com/fabiscafe/gnome-unstable

After a week i removed fcgu lines from pacman.conf and I gave a Pacman - Syuu

X does not restart.

Nvidia dkms is installed
I removed all GNOME Shell addons.
All Gnome packages are downgraded & reinstalled

If I launch startx a minimal system is loaded with no background. I can launch Nautilus, Firefox and load games with nvidia enabled

Photo: https://ibb.co/K52DjGD

If I re-add repos Gnome unstable start again.

How do I return to the basic version of Arch?

Last edited by fabrixx (2022-02-12 14:49:55)

Slithery

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

How do I return to the basic version of Arch?

By reading the wiki...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Offici … positories

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

^ The OP appears to have already tried that.

If I launch startx a minimal system is loaded with no background.

That looks like the bare twm desktop which is launched by /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc if no ~/.xinitrc is present. Do you have ~/.xinitrc?

And have you tried the suggestion by the FCGU developer?

After repo removal you probably still have some packages left from the fcgu repo. Check your `pacman -Qm` and uninstall whats left.

EDIT: and don't use sudo with startx. Ever.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2022-02-11 20:08:09)

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fabrixx

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

Thanks for info about twm.

I have not  ~/.xinitrc but only /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

After

sudo rm - fr. Xauthority-*

I was able to launch that minimal  interface without using sudo.

With pacman -Qm i have a list of extra packages that ive compiled but no residual fcgu

I also uninstalled Adwaita experimental theme and other Which I thought might interfere and renamed  /usr/share and ~/.local/share shell extensions folder

The system is updated with xorg, nvidia and all gnome packages but after 3 days of attempts at the moment the only solution I have is to re-edit pacman ad reinstall that repo
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Last edited by fabrixx (2022-02-12 13:11:06)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

I have not  ~/.xinitrc

You will need to create ~/.xinitrc if you want to launch GNOME with startx. See the ArchWiki GNOME page for details.

It's probably best to install the gdm package from the Arch repositories and enable that instead. GNOME works best when launched from a display manager.

How were you starting the "gnome-unstable" version of the desktop? I've only ever tried the official Arch [gnome-unstable] repositories so i don't know how FCGU works.

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fabrixx

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

Thank you for your reply

I have always used GDM both before and after adding fcgu repositories.

I added fcgu lines in core sections of pacman.conf

I am not interested in starting gnome with startx but starting it at normal startup.

I used startx with that interfacce only to be able to access logs and files more easily.

Last edited by fabrixx (2022-02-11 21:15:40)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

I have always used GDM both before and after adding fcgu repositories.

So what happens after you remove the FCGU repositories and run 'pacman -Syuu'? Does GDM not start any more?

Please describe what exactly is broken in as much detail as possible and also include the journal contents from a broken boot. Remember to use code tags for terminal output or upload the log to a pastebin site and share the link here.

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fabrixx

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

After FGCU repositoty remove, GDM not start and i see white screen with GNOME ooops error logo, i can enter in shell with control+alt+F..

Re-entering in twm minimal interface i'm able to view logs.
This is output of last boot

# journalctl -r  -b -p err > /...logfile 

feb 12 14:26:37 archlinux kernel: usb 3-2: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1
feb 12 14:26:37 archlinux kernel: usb 3-2: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1
feb 12 14:26:37 archlinux gnome-session-binary[749]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
feb 12 14:26:36 archlinux gnome-session-binary[749]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
feb 12 14:26:36 archlinux gnome-session-binary[749]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
feb 12 14:26:35 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:35 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:35 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:35 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux systemd-udevd[428]: hiddev0: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-mixxx-usb-uaccess.rules:57 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="usb/%k".
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: usb 3-2: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled
feb 12 14:26:34 archlinux kernel: 
feb 12 14:26:33 archlinux systemd-udevd[406]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-mixxx-usb-uaccess.rules:57 Unknown group 'uaccess', ignoring

This is more detailed output from

# journalctl -r  -b > /...logfile 

https://pastebin.com/c2TtjLGj

Last edited by fabrixx (2022-02-12 14:19:28)

fabrixx

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

After output analyzing I found this:

feb 12 14:59:05 archlinux gnome-shell[817]: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/status/bluetooth.js 4]: Requiring GnomeBluetooth but it has 2 versions available; use imports.gi.versions to pick one

I realized with the command `pacman -Qm` that I have gnome-bluetooth-gtk4 installed.

After

$ sudo pacman -R gnome-bluetooth-gtk4

everything is finally back to normal.

Thanks everyone for the tips!

Last edited by fabrixx (2022-02-12 14:50:25)

afader

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Re: [solved]Revert from GNOME unstable repository

I had this problem and had to remove

gnome-bluetooth-gtk4 libgweather4

Also FWIW you can use wayland with nvidia and gnome now and it works great!