On 04/22/2013 at 8:07 PM, "Paul Marwick" <paul.marwick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> I picked up some Gnome package upgrades last night during a >pacman >> 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, >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
