It was a cock up with the updates, specifically polkit.

All the updates where up to date last night when I wrote looking for help.
I checked xsession-errors and found that Xfce couldn't find polkit-gobject-1.
Update this morning brought in polkit along with other files.
Reboot and it is fine.

Must be that I ran the updates just when files were moving from experimental to testing.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Stripes

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 11:14, stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Craig,

Thanks.

> Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(EE\)
( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[22.634] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(WW\)
( WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied
[200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied
[200.317] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): failed to set gamma: Permission denied

Google is not very helpful here.
But at least I have something to look at.


if there are errors while X is starting up, they'll be in here.  Look especially
for lines with "(EE)" (errors) and maybe also "(WW)" (warnings).


~/.xsession-errors
 
As you said far too much noise and not enough signal there been scrolling for 10 minutes and still running mostly seems to be font config and firefox errors.

Stripes



craig

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