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#1 2009-09-05 08:29:54

gredawarha
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LXDE desktop has vanished

Hi all

I have a recently installed arch linux set up on my eeepc 701 which was running great.  However yesterday it seems to have stopped working, GRUB loads fine and the install seems to go fine, I reach the log in screen put my user name and password in but from then on nothing happens.  I have not been 'tinkering' with it so I am completely baffled as to what has happened????

Any ideas????

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#2 2009-09-05 10:25:18

djszapi
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Hello gredawarha!

One question mark is enough smile
Do you have any related in log files, escpecially in xorglog/errorlog/dmesg/syslog ? What does it mean 'nothin happens' ? Is it hanging or do you get some error messages ? What happened, maybe a big upgrade ?

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#3 2009-09-05 14:51:23

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

I enter my login and password but then the screen goes black and I cannot see anything at all.

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#4 2009-09-05 14:53:43

japetto
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Can you access a virtual terminal?

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#5 2009-09-05 15:02:23

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

I am not sure how I would go about that?

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#6 2009-09-05 15:18:30

loafer
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Did you do a system upgrade or install any new packages yesterday before it stopped working?


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#7 2009-09-05 15:22:24

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

I did do a system upgrade however I turned it on and off on two separate occasions later in the day with no issues, I have managed to now get to a terminal and do another system upgrade but still when I log in I get no desktop.

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#8 2009-09-05 16:52:10

bernarcher
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

japetto wrote:

Can you access a virtual terminal?

gredawarha wrote:

I am not sure how I would go about that?

Usually:
It is Ctrl+Alt+F1...F6 to bring up one of six virtual consoles where you can perform a text based login.
You get back to X with Ctrl+F7 in an standard installation.


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#9 2009-09-05 17:21:57

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Hi bernarcher I managed to do that which is when I then did another system upgrade, still no desktop though?

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#10 2009-09-05 17:25:42

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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Are HAL and DBUS running?
Are in hal and dbus groups?


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#11 2009-09-05 17:27:04

loafer
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

if you comment out the lxde entry in .xintrc and then startx does it work ... i.e. you get the basic x.


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#12 2009-09-05 17:40:37

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Hi speedVin, HAL and DBUS should be running but how do I check?

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#13 2009-09-05 17:50:08

loafer
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

 ls /var/run/daemons/

should tell you.


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#14 2009-09-06 16:18:15

gredawarha
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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Okay HAL and DBUS are running.  I have just done a nano .xinitrc and there is nothing there?  That does not seem right?

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#15 2009-09-06 17:39:58

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Re: LXDE desktop has vanished

Try creating the file and see if it helps.


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