Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Tazman Deville wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > Friends,
> >
> > For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not.
> > I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo,
> > but not for my user.
> >
> > Or, really, what happens is, it seems to start (can find processes and kill them),
> > but no window appears. It seems to hang.
> >
> > I tried to use gdb, but get no debug information.
> > What happens there is the whole thing (gdb and pcmanfm) hangs,
> > doing nothing, until I kill pcmanfm again, and gdb tells me nothing.
> >
> > When I run it from terminal, likewise, I find no errors, nothing.
> > Just hangs (even if I run the command with pcmanfm &, it just hangs the
> > terminal).
> > For all other users on the machine, it runs fine.
> > I'm at a loss for what else to do to diagnose the problem,
> > and, of course, at this juncture, I have no useful information for why
> > it is not running properly.
> >
> > Yes, also, of course, I have killalled any such processes several times
> > before trying to start it again.
> > I've also tried with other WMs (I use openbox as a standalone, but have
> > also now tried with LXDE and with wmii, and still no joy. Have no other
> > WMs on the system at this time).
> > This is on wheezy.
> >
> > I've even tried replacing my conf files in
> > ~/.config/pcmanfm/{default,LXDE}/pcmanfm.conf
> > with the files from another user (and chowning them to me, of course),
> > to determine if there were something amiss in my config files,
> > but, alas, this too proved unproductive.
> > I don't know what else to do.
> >
>
> I'm still having this issue here.
> So far, nobody has suggested anything than what I've already done.
> Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's
> absolutely nothing relevant there.
>
Oh, and something I've neglected to mention:
I have also aptitude remove purged it and reinstalled it, as well,
several times, and this also produces no change.
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