On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess a broken "studio" app won't break the complete Arch install, but > perhaps "mate" could cause issues regarding to GTK libs, that are able > to break the complete install. Booting into the console rather than straight to X may help a bit but you should be able to go back to console even if the graphical environment doesn't want to cooperate.