Xfce won't start

rsgosnell · 2012-01-16 23:57:00

I'm running Xfce4.8 on a Debian Sid installation, Asus eee-pc 900. I just did an update of Sid, and now Xfce won't start. I'm using gdm3 for a display manager, and it comes up and lets me select the window manager like always. If I select other window managers, such as Gnome, all works fine. But with Xfce, I get the splash screen, then a blank screen with the 'wait' cursor, and it goes back to the gdm3 login, repeatedly. Some error dialog shows, but it's gone too fast to read it. My ~/.config/xfce4-session directory is empty, as I haven't been saving sessions. Any suggestions?

the98 · 2012-01-18 02:58:08

Try running startxfce4 instead of gdm3 to see how it behaves.

rsgosnell · 2012-02-10 20:23:13

Well, it started working on its own. No idea what the problem, nor the fix, was.

rsgosnell · 2012-03-03 20:22:23

Started cycling repeatedly again. It has to be a problem in the cache or something, but I haven't solved it this time. Back on Gnome for the time being, at least it runs.

secipolla · 2012-03-03 23:22:24

You can see the exact error by looking at ~/.xsession-errors
If you login in another environment after you had unsuccessfully tried Xfce, you can still see the errors in ~/.xsession-errors.old

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Xfce won't start

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