[SOLVED] Black desktop, can't restart xfdesktop

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[SOLVED] Black desktop, can't restart xfdesktop

Post by pinin »

I'm on Linux MInt 13 LTS, it was running OK on my old netbook (best OS for old Eeepc out of the box) :wink:
Today it got some updates. After rebooting, desktop disappeared, I can only see a black screen, no icons and no wallpaper.
I can see and use menu and taskbar.
I tried

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xfdesktop -R
but it says

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Fallo al procesar argumentos: Unknown option -R
(failed processing arguments).
Help?
Thank you!
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Hoser Rob
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Re: Black desktop, can't restart xfdesktop

Post by Hoser Rob »

Can you find logs of the updates and post them?
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Re: Black desktop, can't restart xfdesktop

Post by pinin »

*Edit:
Forget it, it's fixed now. Yesterday i tried

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xfdesktop
(without arguments) and it didn't work. Today it did. :?: I still don't know why it doesn't like the -R argument. Whatever. Thanks for your help anyways. I leave here the logs just in case someone is curious.


This are from mintUpdate.history

2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqt4-opengl 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqt4-declarative 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqt4-qt3support 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqt4-xmlpatterns 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqtcore4 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:05 libqt4-sql-sqlite 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-sql 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-svg 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-xml 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-network 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-designer 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqtgui4 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015.06.04 14:36:06 libqt4-script 3 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9


This are from dpkg.log

2015-06-04 14:37:38 startup archives unpack
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2015-06-04 14:37:51 status half-configured libqt4-declarative 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8
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2015-06-04 14:37:54 upgrade libqt4-network 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015-06-04 14:37:54 status half-configured libqt4-network 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8
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2015-06-04 14:37:55 status unpacked libqt4-network 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015-06-04 14:37:56 upgrade libqt4-script 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015-06-04 14:37:56 status half-configured libqt4-script 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8
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2015-06-04 14:37:57 status unpacked libqt4-script 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015-06-04 14:37:57 upgrade libqt4-sql-sqlite 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
2015-06-04 14:37:57 status half-configured libqt4-sql-sqlite 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8
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2015-06-04 14:37:59 upgrade qdbus 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.8 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9
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