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reboot to blank destop, "no exec line in session file:xfce4", terminal kaput

Bug #490297 reported by CoolHandLuke on 2009-11-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #354204: No exec line in the session file: xfce4. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: yelp

related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-utils/+bug/354204
noob, upgraded from xubuntu (8) to 9.04
Install appeared to go fine. Rebooted with topic error "no exec.." and then "..will start in Gnome failsafe.."
Desktop brown background pic only. Terminal (alt+f2) -> giant screen - cant read first few char. And cant exit from it (goes to black screen, cursor top left). Writing part of text blind - and I'm not experienced at cmd line. So can't open folder (as in related bug) to try amending 'HOME/' folder..
Please help/advise.
Have tried grub startup options with no luck. Format and re download? (hopefully not in this day and age..!?).
Sorry, no help with version !
Thanks in anticipation.
Matt

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

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CoolHandLuke (mkmanks) wrote on 2009-11-30:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (34.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (774 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2009-11-30

affects:

yelp (Ubuntu) → ubuntu

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WeatherGod (ben-v-root) wrote on 2009-11-30:

#2

CoolHandLuke, do you get any sort of login screen? Or does the boot process go straight to this mode?

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Incomplete

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CoolHandLuke (mkmanks) wrote on 2009-12-01:

#3

Hi WeatherGod
No login screen. Black screen with the loading bar (splash scrn?); blue scrn with the error msgs, brown wallpaper scrn.
Cheers

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WeatherGod (ben-v-root) wrote on 2009-12-01:

#4

CoolHandLuke, when you are at the screen with the brown wallpaper, you should be able to right-click with your mouse and get a drop-down menu with things that you can do. If you can start up a terminal, you could run an editor like gedit or kate to then edit that particular file.

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CoolHandLuke (mkmanks) wrote on 2009-12-02:

#5

Good idea. Opened gedit, browsed to HOME/me/.drmc and changed the text from xfce4 to xfce. Worked!
Thanks very much for your time.

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