On 04/22/2013 at 8:07 PM, "Paul Marwick" <paul.marwick@gmail.com> wrote:
I picked up some Gnome package upgrades last night during a
update, and I haven't been able to log into XFCE ever since. It gets most of the way through the login process, then craps out and falls back to the session manager (LXDM). I'm not even able to see any debug information about what's going on.
Anyone have a clue / pointer to a fix / workaround?
Thanks,
DR Not sure how much this helps, but I've just aborted an upgrade,
David Rosenstrauch wrote: pacman mainly because it looked as tough it was going to drag in most of gnome. Just looking at the direct gnome sutff, this is what I've been looking at:
gnome-desktop-1:3.8.1-1 gnome-dictionary-3.6.0-2 gnome-font- viewer-3.8.0-1 gnome-icon-theme-3.8.0-1 gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.8.0.1-1 gnome-keyring-3.8.1-1 gnome-screenshot-3.8.1-1 gnome-search-tool-3.6.0-2 gnome-system- log-3.8.1-1 gnome-system-monitor-3.8.0-1 gobject-introspection-1.36.0-1 lib32-pango-1.34.0-1 libgee-0.10.1-1 libgee06-0.6.8-1 libgnome-keyring-3.8.0-1 libsoup-gnome-2.40.3-1 [removal] libtracker-sparql-0.16.0-4 libusbx-1.0.15-1
Prior to this upgrade, I had gnome-utils installed - the extras seem to be baggage picked up by it. I'm going to have to work out whether its really needed - I've no desire to have a huge stack of gnome bloat on my nice Xfce system....
If you're having problems starting Xfce now, sounds like even more reason to refuse the upgrade.
Paul.
I'm running Xfce with LXDM and it works smoothly even with the new gnome version - tho the only packages from the gnome-group I have installed are those: narve ~ % pacman -Qg gnome [20:38:45 on 13-04-22] gnome gnome-icon-theme gnome gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome xdg-user-dirs-gtk Two of those are even dependencies for xfce4-settings, so they kinda "belong to the suite".. So it's either some breakage caused by other gnome packages or something completely different. Narve