Sometimes, the desktop environment of elementary OS Loki failed to start when i've entered my password in LightDM.
Do you have any tips for me ?
Thx for read this post.
3 Answers
This technique is work for me:
- Open "Files" application as root
- Browse folder: /etc/xdg/autostart/
- Rename file: at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop to at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled
- Restart
I can confirm that renaming /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop to /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled fixed the issue for me as well.
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1It might be easier to provide a single console command which can do this in one go instead of opening Files as root (which is not terribly safe). Jan 26, 2017 at 22:56
I'm curious if your desktop failed to start, or maybe it hung for a long time. (long time = 2-3 or more minutes)
On 3 different installs, I've seen this problem happen after installing the latest system updates.
On all of them, I solved the problem by going to terminal and running this:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled
You should pay attention to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1596377
It's a know bug, isn't solved yet but its on work :D
tail /var/log/syslog. Opening a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F2 (before entering your password in GUI) logging in terminal and usingtopcan also help. Afterwards come back to GUI with CTRL+ALT+F7 enter your password in GUI and come back again to terminal with CTRL+ALT+F2 to see if you can determine the cause of this problem. You can alternate between GUI and terminal. NOTE: I use F2 but you can use F3, F4...