xfce No Mouse Pointer at Log-In Screen

ellanios82 ellanios82 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 20:37:31 CET 2015


On 11/09/2015 07:58 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 17:41:22 +0200, ellanios82 wrote:
>> with openSUSE Tumbleweed : Several times recently there is No
>> Mouse-Pointer at xfce lightdm Log-In Screen.
> Any related logs in /var/log/lightdm/?
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  many thanks Ralf :

  - i cannot understand anything suspicious , except :

"** Message: Starting lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.1 (Oct 18 2015, 17:16)
** Message: [Configuration] Reading file: 
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1629): WARNING **: [PIDs] Failed to execute 
command: /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1629): WARNING **: [PIDs] Failed to execute 
command: upstart
Configuration file 
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-suse-defaults.conf contains a 
deprecated [SeatDefaults] section, use [Seat:*] instead "

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sometimes xfce has frozen my desktop system , at  "xfsettingsd" :
necessitating Power-Off .

> How did you found out that it freeze "at  "xfsettingsd""?
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  because that shows on Monitor , at time my system freezes 'solid'

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>
> Does Ctrl + Alt + Fx still work?
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Ctrl + Alt + Fx  does NOT work : system is frozen solid

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 > If so what is displayed by running the top and/or ps command?

 > $ xfsettingsd --help [snip] --replace Replace running xsettings 
daemon (if any)
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  thanks : trying this , but looks as if Failed :

" # xfsettingsd --replace
AIG:~ # Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the 
session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined

(xfsettingsd:28463): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion 
'prefix != NULL' failed

(xfsettingsd:28463): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_string: 
assertion 'G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (value)' failed

(xfsettingsd:28463): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_string: 
assertion 'G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (value)' failed  "

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  i will reboot tomorrow and report on what happens.

Thank you

regards
  ellan
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