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davidlondonuk

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Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 49

xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

Hi all,

After updating this morning, my xfce system is broken: no panel menu, right click for panel menu does not work, desktop background is black with no icons.

I can't seem to find any errors in the logs. I changed inittab to boot into console instead of slim, did 'startx > errors.txt' but nothing in the errors.txt file.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this.

Thanks.

Anda

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Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 58

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

I fixed it by using this command

ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62

from this thread

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75991

As a temporary solution I think it's okay. But I guess you might want to revoke it, when it gets fixed.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

1. Don't cross post
2. Don't symlink libraries.  It's a hack that will likely cause weird issues due to the differences in the library versions.

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Anda

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Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 58

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

1. Don't cross post
2. Don't symlink libraries.  It's a hack that will likely cause weird issues due to the differences in the library versions.

What would then be the proper solution?

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

1. Don't cross post
2. Don't symlink libraries.  It's a hack that will likely cause weird issues due to the differences in the library versions.

What would then be the proper solution?

fill bug reports. if isn't reported how can we know about this issue?

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Anda

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Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 58

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

fill bug reports. if isn't reported how can we know about this issue?

Hmm, I supposed someone already did that as I used 'the solution' from this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75991

(Anyways I'm only this as a temporary solution)

Last edited by Anda (2009-07-15 14:09:45)

Anda

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Registered: 2009-07-14

Posts: 58

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

#1: Wait for your mirror to get sync'ed. I removed my symlink and then upgraded to Thunar 1.0.1-4 - Now it works again.

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

Mine's gone too.... tried:
- syncing from main mirror & reinstalling some xfce-related things
- recompiling almost all xfce-related stuff from ABS
- doing a dirty symlink (+ removing it after it didn't work )

Didn't help.

ldd /usr/bin/*|grep jpeg
... only lists .7 ones, but I've got no idea if that Info is even related.

Gonna try "just waiting" now

edit: wah, what a day, every time I post something anywhere, 10 seconds later it solved itsself: for some reason I rebuilt thunar & xfdesktop a second time, after that it worked. So: either there was some build order needed for this or I messed something else up the first time.

Last edited by whoops (2009-07-16 00:31:03)

hypnos

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From: Poland, Jarocin

Registered: 2006-12-05

Posts: 21

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

I got all back to normal after downloading libjpeg package (ver. 7) one more time. Restarted the mashine and everything's working as well.

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jwbwater

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From: US, Arizona

Registered: 2009-07-22

Posts: 14

Re: xfce4 no panel menu, desktop background or icons after update

I had a less severe version of this problem where only the panel didn't come up and I ended up fixing it by starting the panel at the command line (xfce4-panel).  Now it starts automatically again.