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cecilyen

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From: US Capital

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 27

No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

Today, my xfwm suddenly stop to work after a system wide pacman update yesterday.
There seems no error in dmesg and Xorg.o.log. How can I debug now?

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Arch Linux i686(kernel: 3.1.7-ck, xfce) running on Toshiba s100 (Pentium M 1.73GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD, Nvidia 6600/6200 TE 64MB)

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

Is X working at all? Try startx with 'exec xterm' in your .xinitrc.

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cecilyen

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From: US Capital

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 27

Re: No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

X seems fine. I can run Firefox, terminal and so on.
But, I can't switch task neither change the "focus" among windows.

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Arch Linux i686(kernel: 3.1.7-ck, xfce) running on Toshiba s100 (Pentium M 1.73GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD, Nvidia 6600/6200 TE 64MB)

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

what packages were updated?  check your pacman.log and see if any of the packages might have affected your window manager.

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cecilyen

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From: US Capital

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 27

Re: No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

[2010-04-25 14:38] synchronizing package lists
[2010-04-25 14:39] starting full system upgrade
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded linux-api-headers (2.6.33.1-1 -> 2.6.33.2-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] Generating locales...
[2010-04-25 14:41]   en_US.UTF-8... done
[2010-04-25 14:41]   en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
[2010-04-25 14:41]   zh_TW.UTF-8... done
[2010-04-25 14:41]   zh_TW.BIG5... done
[2010-04-25 14:41] Generation complete.
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded glibc (2.11.1-2 -> 2.11.1-3)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded binutils (2.20.1-1 -> 2.20.1-2)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded cloog-ppl (0.15.8-1 -> 0.15.9-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded coreutils (8.4-2 -> 8.4-3)
[2010-04-25 14:41] installed libmpc (0.8.1-2)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded gcc (4.4.3-2 -> 4.5.0-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded gcc-libs (4.4.3-2 -> 4.5.0-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded git (1.7.0.5-1 -> 1.7.1-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded libassuan (1.0.5-2 -> 2.0.0-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded gnupg2 (2.0.14-1 -> 2.0.15-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded gpgme (1.2.0-1 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded grub (0.97-16 -> 0.97-17)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded libgnomekbd (2.30.0-1 -> 2.30.1-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded libmysqlclient (5.1.46-1 -> 5.1.46-2)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded libnl (1.1-1 -> 1.1-2)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded libsasl (2.1.23-2 -> 2.1.23-4)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded qt (4.6.2-3 -> 4.6.2-4)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded sdparm (1.04-1 -> 1.05-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded unixodbc (2.2.14-2 -> 2.3.0-1)
[2010-04-25 14:41] upgraded util-linux-ng (2.17.2-1 -> 2.17.2-2)
[2010-04-25 14:43] upgraded ibus-qt (1.2.0.20091217-2 -> 1.3.0-1)

There are lots of update yesterday. Maybe cause by GCC?
How can I revert the change by pacman?

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Arch Linux i686(kernel: 3.1.7-ck, xfce) running on Toshiba s100 (Pentium M 1.73GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD, Nvidia 6600/6200 TE 64MB)

cecilyen

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From: US Capital

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 27

Re: No Window Manager After Last pacman Update

Ok, I figured out why.
Some packages changed my /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager in gconftool-2 back to metacity.
Change it to xfwm4, fix the problem.

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Arch Linux i686(kernel: 3.1.7-ck, xfce) running on Toshiba s100 (Pentium M 1.73GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HD, Nvidia 6600/6200 TE 64MB)