Unable to load a failsafe session

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at xfce.org
Fri Apr 17 08:00:55 CEST 2009


Chris Thomas wrote:
> I recently installed Arch along with XFCE and XFCE loads ok for root,
> but I get this error for normal users in which XCFE exits.
> 
> "Unable to determine failsafe session. Possible causes : xfconfd isn't running
> (D-Bus setup problem), environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly
> (must include "/etc"), or xfce4-sessions is installed incorrectly."
> 
> Any ideas?

Look though
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dbus

Just my 2 cents
Mike



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