is it safe to use pclinuxos xfce

[zorlac]

I think I may have missed a warning somewhere but I did an update on an XFCE machine this morning and synaptic notified me about major removals & updates but since it's a test machine I gave it a go.
Now it boots asking me if I want a 3D desktop or not (I said no) and then it falls back to the login screen only to repeat the exercise over again.
Is there a graceful way to recover?
Thanks

[ghostbunny]

you should not press ok if major stuff is removed

we updated xfce to version 4.10.0 if you have problems with updating on hitting mark  all updates click libxfce4util and select mark for update. this will cycle out some unnecessary packages which arn't supported any more and it will mark some further stuff for update but you have to mark the rest of the xfce4 stuff manually.

[zorlac]

OK, So I guess the gui is hosed.
How would I get to a terminal window from the desktop login window if it can even be fixed at this point.
Sorry for starting another thread, wasn't sure this would get noticed and I thought I could possibly spare someone some pain.

[ghostbunny]

if you are at the login window press ctrl + alt + F2

it will appear a terminal like screen. login as root.

then do

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apt-get install task-xfce


to get the basic xfce back.

if you need it you can also install task-xfce-plugins.

[zorlac]

Thanks GB,

Just tried your suggestion but my old gui's still toast.
A forum warning prior to the xfce repo changes would have been nice.
Is it safe to upgrade to the Xfce 4.10 desktop by marking libxfce4util for update or just better to wait for a new .iso?

Mark

[monsee]

Me too have updated XFCE from 4.8 to 4.10 (so in my PCLinuxOS XFCE 32-bit "Phoenix" Edition, the same in my PCLinuxOS XFCE 64-bit "Joble" Edition [BETA])... and I have lost two things: 1) the XFCE Task Manager and 2) the Panel Tray Applet
I cannot fint them more...   
Do you know a way to call back them? Thank you very much! 

[JohnW_57]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109357.msg945514.html#msg945514

Already known issue.
The xfce4-taskmanager is still in 32 bit repo:
xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.0-5pclos2012.i586.rpm                    19-Jan-2012 14:19   70K 

JohnW

[monsee]

Yes, you are right!
Sorry, I was a little blinded, in that moment, so I don't see the right package!  
In the 32-bit version, there is package (I have just installed it, thank you!  )
Not same for 64-bit XFCE, but this is other story, I know it, due the 64-bit version is already under test.