<snippety-snip> On 02/04/2012 10:35 PM, lina wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Gilbert Sullivan <whirly...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> Hi, Lina. >> >> Xfce occasionally corrupts its settings for an individual user. I and >> others have found that this is more likely to happen immediately after >> applying updates, of which there have been quite a few for Xfce recently. >> > > Hi Gilbert, > >> I believe that the corruption occurs because most frequently because >> Xfce is placed in some intermediate state by the upgrades that have just >> been applied, and the user logs out or reboots with the "Save session >> for future logins" checkbox enabled. So, the corrupted session gets saved. > > You are right. Before I was surprised why everytime I reboot it showed > me the old terminal, not like restart, more like wake up from > hilbernation, > later I figured it out. > >> >> Here's a brief procedure that was suggested to me by a member of the >> Xfce community. It always works for me when this happens: >> >> 1. Reboot in recovery mode. (Hit <esc> key during grub splash, and >> select recovery mode.) > > I entered from kernel (recover mode) >> >> 2. Log in to the recovery console with the root password. >> >> 3. Use su to change to the affected user id in the console. (su lina, in >> this case) >> >> 4. From the command line delete $HOME/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-* >> where * will be the machine id:display number. (probably >> /home/lina/.cache/sessions/xfce4-session-<your_machine_name>:0) > > I removed all inside the session part. > >> >> 5. Reboot and bring up the system in the usual manner. > > It works. >> >> The above procedure can clear corruptions in the session settings >> without removing most (any?) of your personally configured settings for >> panels, desktop, etc. At worst it can do no harm. Xfce is capable or >> re-creating the file you're deleting. I've never had to redo basic >> configurations for the desktop after using the procedure. >> >> I hope that information is useful. If not, then it at least should not >> cause you any further troubles. > > Thanks, it's very helpful. >
That's good news. I'm glad the procedure worked for you. Best regards, Gilbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2ea880.7000...@comcast.net
