Unable to start xfce as user

[tuxtop]

Dear Forum

As I now tried every hint I found in the internet (or at least over google and ddgo ) and nothing works, I hope somebody here might have the answer for me

As root everything works fine. Regardless of using startx of startxfce4 I end op in the Desktop, I now installed slim too and this works perfectly with root too.

However, when I try as normal user I end up getting a message (looking like an xfce warning)

[Roman_Gruber]

[tuxtop]

The file looked already exactly like the one you posted.

[Roman_Gruber]

rc-update show

does service xdm exists in runlevel default?

if it does the service which is in the other file will be run, which is slim in my case..

[tuxtop]

yes xdm is in default runlevel

Slim works perfectly i can login with root & password an then the xfce desktop appears but i still get the error "Unable to determine failsafe session name" when trying with username & password

[Roman_Gruber]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Unable+to+determine+failsafe+session+name%22

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77646 Seems reasonable

i did not checked other results.

May I kindly ask you to try that and also read the other hints and than report back if it works or if there is something new, ty

[tuxtop]

Well as I said I tried already all hints I found in google and this includes the ones from the archforum. Since nothing of that worked I decided to ask my question here

[-Fin-roller]

Heh, did the googling include this one too?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-808713-start-0.html

Could post little more besides the last line of console output too when you try to do startxfce4 from the command line please =). Or is that the only thing that's printed?

[tuxtop]

Hi

Yes I also found this thread while googling

Tried everything I found there except the adding to the groups since I have none of those groups listed (cat /etc/group)


This is the only error i get and it seems to be displayed in a xfce-styled message-window. I can only hit close and then get back to the slim-loginscreen which is kind of flickering but I can then login again (as root which works and also ends the flickering)

I looked at /var/log/Xorg.log but found nothing that looked like an error not even the error i get displayed is logged there

[Roman_Gruber]

how about using lxdm?

lxdm -d, kinda starts it in daemon mode, quite enough when you start it from cli.

[-Fin-roller]

You should startxfce4 from command line and see what get printed in there.

[slackline]

I've encountered similar sort of problem today.

I use slim (its in the default runlevel) so when booting I end up dropping into the slim login. Enter my username and password and instead of then getting prompted for my ssh RSA key password (since I use net-misc/ssh-askpass-fullscreen) I just get the desktop displayed without any toolbar (I have one normally), no mouse cursor, menu keys don't work.

No idea whats going on, recent updates included nm-applet (NetworkManager applet) and that changed /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop from...

[slackline]

Poking around I tried switching from Compiz to xfwm4 but this makes no difference, still can't login from Slim and don't get ssh-askpass-fullscreen appearing, but can log in to a terminal and startxfce4 no problem.

Very strange.

The packages I've updated in the last week or so are...

[sadhu]

I've got the same problem. After inputting password slim freezes. Stopping xdm and manually running startxfce4 works fine.

I think it may have happened after some of those updates:

[kiksen]

Hi.

Maybe the problem is related to the upgrade to consolekit 1.0. More info in the bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560088.
If you're on ~ and have upgrade consolekit it's worth trying a downgrade.

[sadhu]

Yup, downgrading consolekit solved it! Thanks.

[slackline]