Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/26/2017 03:31 PM, Alan E. Davis via arch-general wrote: > Thank you for the tips. > > I am able to run either i3 or xfce4 through startx. Not gnome. GDM will > not work. I have made another account. I cannot start GDM as root, nor > run Gnome through startx/.xinitrc, as root. For now,

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
Thank you for the tips. I am able to run either i3 or xfce4 through startx. Not gnome. GDM will not work. I have made another account. I cannot start GDM as root, nor run Gnome through startx/.xinitrc, as root. For now, I am abandoning my experiment with Gnome on this machine. I will also

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 18:37:58 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: >though I can't see any reason for autostarting wine So your advice to create another user account seems to be more promising for troubleshooting. -- $ pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-cornflower,-pussytoes}}|awk '{print $2}' 4.14-2 4.13.13_rt5-1

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op 26 nov. 2017 13:15 schreef "Guus Snijders" : Op 26 nov. 2017 10:52 schreef "Alan E. Davis via arch-general" < arch-general@archlinux.org>: To clarify, I have been running the same Arch Linux installation for many months, without a hitch. Until this event. [...] I will

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:15:06 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote: >Though, on second thought; the entire problem could be just ADE ;). >If the problem is that it auto-starts on logon or whatever, try >renaming the wine directory (~/.wine) first. >That's just about comparable to reinstalling Windows...

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Guus Snijders via arch-general
Op 26 nov. 2017 10:52 schreef "Alan E. Davis via arch-general" < arch-general@archlinux.org>: To clarify, I have been running the same Arch Linux installation for many months, without a hitch. Until this event. [...] I will reinstall Arch Linux, no doubt, unless I can fix this. A quicker way

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
To clarify, I have been running the same Arch Linux installation for many months, without a hitch. Until this event. The exact message since that time has been (on a gray screen) "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:13:51 -0800, Alan E. Davis wrote: >It seemed to start when I tried to install Adobe-Digital-Editions >(ADE), so I could read an ebook borrowed from the local public >library. I installed wine, and attempted to install ADE. At the end >of the install process, the console

[arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-25 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
I'll try to give some background, because I do not have a really good idea why this is happening. It seemed to start when I tried to install Adobe-Digital-Editions (ADE), so I could read an ebook borrowed from the local public library. I installed wine, and attempted to install ADE. At the end