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I just ran a pacman -Syu.
I'm using gdm as a session manager,
and xfce4 as environnment.
After upgrade ... gdm login tell me
no exec line in session file xfce4
then tries to switch to a failsafe session... alas xterm does not exist (i never installed that old thing) => complete crash of gdm.
I tried to kill gdm (using gdm-stop),
and then startxfce4 from console. (no startx available btw !?)
This time it crashes, because xinit does not exist.
(i checked : noxinit in /usr/bin or whatnot)
What is missing there ?
Feels like the dependances are missing something, but what.
Help will be much appreciated ...
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I reply to self.
first : I intalled xorg-xinit.
So i could run a x session without a fuss with startxfce4.
The gdm problem was too obvuous to be missed... so I missed it.
There was an empty file named :
/etc/X11/sessions/xfce4.desktop
and a full healthy file called
/etc/X11/sessions/xfce.desktop
Force GDM to use the right one, and I was done. (directly from GDM invite, "session" button)
Yet it is rather annoying for a newbie to be dropped to nothing but command line.
(like people I try to "sell" linux ease of use and upgrade ... or like me barely woke up on a sunday morning ;-) )
Last edited by skai (2009-03-01 11:32:13)
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If it doesn't bother you, removing a login manager and typing startxfce4 whenever you login to a shell should be faster.
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True. That' what I personaly would do... but would'nt fit with the WAF at home ... (Woman Acceptance Factor ;-) )
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