On 23-04-2013 06:01, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 04/22/2013 01:12 PM, 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 > > OK, I was finally able to pin this down. > > Apparently when I whack my XFCE session cache file > (~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-daroselin:0) the problem goes away and > I can start up XFCE no problem. But as soon as I save the session, > creating a new session cache file, XFCE starts to crap out at startup. > > I'm not sure what in the session cache is causing the problem. The only > slightly odd things that I'm running in my session that are getting > saved to the cache file are qps, and kalarm (which then pull in a whole > bunch of akonadi dependency crap). > > Workaround for now seems to be "never save my XFCE session", which > fortunately isn't too much of a hardship for me, since I don't rely on > it too heavily. > > DR > I've had that problem a long time ago (a few years back) and since then I have stopped saving the session. It also took me some time to figure it out back then and now I always uncheck the save session checkbox to avoid problems. -- Mauro Santos
