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#1 2009-08-09 09:44:18

JohnnyAce
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Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

I installed Xfce and Arch succesfully few months ago by just following Beginners Guide on a Wiki, but now when I re-installed Arch and Xfce I got following error when I try to start startxfce4 or xfce4-session.

Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes xconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem);
environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc") or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.

Already tried tricks those were introduced on other thread about same kinda problem, but they didn't work for me. Is there anything else I could try to get Xfce work?

(Not sure was it polite to make new topic about same problem, but when the other one was already marked as [SOLVED], I thought it's not necessary to bumb it anymore.)

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#2 2009-08-09 09:50:32

SpeedVin
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

D-bus are installed and working?


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#3 2009-08-09 10:18:20

JohnnyAce
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

Yes, I have installed dbus and atleast it is loaded succesfully when I boot arch, but it didn't help.

Edit: Hmm, seems that when I log in as root and run startxfce4 it starts fine. Maybe I have messed something with my user settings?

Last edited by JohnnyAce (2009-08-09 10:34:37)

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#4 2009-08-09 11:48:38

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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

Are your user in group dbus?


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#5 2009-08-09 12:03:14

JohnnyAce
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

I wasn't so I added myself, but it didn't have any affect, maybe I messed something up during the installation and should install the whole arch again.

Maybe I somehow broke my dbus group because I earlier when I tried desperately solve this myself I followed instructions from D-Bus Troubleshooting and blindly followed commands

# groupadd -g 81 dbus
# useradd -c 'System message bus' -u 81 -g dbus -d '/' -s /bin/false dbus

Edit: Did a fresh install and everything works now fine, maybe I had few beers too much last evening when I was installing Arch.

Last edited by JohnnyAce (2009-08-09 15:16:46)

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#6 2009-11-01 19:24:24

mivo
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

Freshly installed Arch on an older laptop today and ran into the exactly same problem. Xfce4 will work as root, but produce the error message in the original post when I start it as a user. dbus is installed and the user is in the dbus group. Hal is running. It is a fresh install, so I didn't have chance yet to mess anything up. smile I deleted and recreated the user account (this fixed the problem for someone else), but no change.

Any ideas? I doubt reinstalling Arch would do much, and well, that can't be the solution anyway.

Edit: I got it to work, but it's still unclear what causes the error. When I su to my user account and startxfce4, I get the error message. If I log normally into the system with the user account and startxfce4, it works fine.

Last edited by mivo (2009-11-01 19:34:16)

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#7 2009-11-06 20:57:21

barbatron
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

ok,

I had the same problem. After reading the last comment, I just typed su and xfce4-session in a terminal while running fluxbox ( don't think it matters ) and yes, I got a bunch of errors, cause a wm was already running, But now everything works fine.

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#8 2010-06-09 03:31:28

Nemesis1963
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Re: Xfce - Unable to load a failsafe session

I solved it changing files permissions in my home directory (regrettably some files were owned by root).
As root I did:

chown -R /home/user_name

Xfce4 up and no more problems smile

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