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Hello, after a long time without doing upgrades on my archlinux, I tried it once today. The upgrade failed, there were some packages conflit. Then nautilus and terminal were unable to be launched, so I restarted my PC. But when it's supposed to display the login window, the screen became black with a little clock instead of the mouse point.
Anyone can tell me how can I recovery my desktop environnement please?
If it isn't possible, how can I copy my data on a USB disk?
Thank you.
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First question, is the gdm daemon in your rc.conf or your inittab?
If it is in the inittab, then append the number 3 to the end of the grub kernel init string. This will boot to runlevel 3, and leave you in a text console.
If it is in rc.conf...well, if you can Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc out of the X session with the little clock, then just run from the console, then that's easy. Otherwise switch to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and log in, then try doing
killall gdm
As a last resort, you can always boot to single user by putting 1 at the end of the grub init string instead of 3.
After you are in the console, then try doing xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session and see if it works. If not, then you can try rolling back packages and whatnot.
Also, check /var/log/pacman.log and paste the failures you got.
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