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harrykar
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system corrupted without apparent reason

#1 Post by harrykar »

Yesterday late after managed to set ActivityWatch activity tracker all good before shutdown and go to sleep, but after a logout and login I got an unusable system what I mean is:
  • All open windows lies amassed one above the other on the screen's left up corner,
  • windows have lost the 3 symbols on the right (minimise,maximize,close) and mouse/touchpad focus,
  • the cursor become an x but now after some logout,shutdown is again an arrow, then an x again etc,
  • cloak is unset and now conky have a dark frame around(see pic),
  • the icons(files) I had on desktop disappeared(appear after I open the lip but then disappear then panel and have to shutdown and restart),
  • when screensaver goes on and after when I reenter appear the desktop icons but disappear the panel(I have to logout and login to appear again the panel --and disappear desktop icons--),
  • the 2 default workspaces not exist more now exist only 1 workspace,
  • when cursor goes on a context menu(not on all windows but for sure on browser and file manager(thunar)) the context menu disappear I have to use combo keyboard keys,
  • network manager with no wifi(the only net inerface I use actually)-- fortunately when logged in today for some magic reason restart worked so I can write here--
  • Actually I can open only one window at a time because they overlap and not change focus not only with cursor but even after tap on them.
...and who knows what other.

Practically the system as is it's definitely not usable :(

I thought to reinstall but before that step lets see with your help if something is recoverable. Really dunno what happened all was OK(a part few annoyances i reported here) and suddenly came the absolute chaos.
In your opinion/feeling happened something system wide or only in my home?
Meanwhile what's the easy way to copy/backup my home(preserving as possible as the original) to a storage device?
Let me know what you think about
TIA

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System:
  Kernel: 6.6.12-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.6-16~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.6.12-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash fbcon=nodefer
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0
    Distro: MX-23.2_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 250 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8A1D v: 08.37 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.59
    date: 02/04/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 8.8 Wh (21.9%) condition: 40.2/41.0 Wh (97.9%) volts: 11.0 min: 11.3
    model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake level: v3
    note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 4
    microcode: 0x430
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 mt: 2 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 928 KiB
    desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 6.5 MiB desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
    desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 596 high: 941 min/max: 400/2501 boost: enabled scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 941 2: 768 3: 926 4: 871 5: 754 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400
    11: 500 12: 400 bogomips: 59904
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
    HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4628 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP True Vision HD Camera type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 05c8:0b05 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x153b built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.12-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel modules: wl pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:b85c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 132 GiB (14.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740 SDDPNQD-512G-1006
    size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: HPS3 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: A-Data model: UE800 size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1000 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 463.42 GiB size: 463.42 GiB (100.00%) used: 131.68 GiB (28.4%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 973.4 MiB (95.06%) used: 329.4 MiB (33.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-4: /home raw-size: 463.42 GiB size: 463.42 GiB (100.00%) used: 131.68 GiB (28.4%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 11.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1
    maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-<filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2832 libs: 1280 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
    1: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fasttrack.list
    1: deb https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian/ bookworm-fasttrack main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bookworm main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 417 Uptime: 3h 24m wakeups: 21261 Memory: 7.44 GiB used: 2.79 GiB (37.5%)
  Init: SysVinit v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0
  alt: 12 clang: 14.0.6 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: system corrupted witout apparent reason

#2 Post by j2mcgreg »

Although I am a real fan of them, the Liquorix kernels can sometimes be hit and miss. At the grub screen press 'e' to edit and then select an earlier kernel as the boot choice. If this gets you back to near normal operation, you can make the switch permanent with Boot Options in MX Tools.
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Re: system corrupted witout apparent reason

#3 Post by harrykar »

j2mcgreg wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:29 am Although I am a real fan of them, the Liquorix kernels can sometimes be hit and miss. At the grub screen press 'e' to edit and then select an earlier kernel as the boot choice. If this gets you back to near normal operation, you can make the switch permanent with Boot Options in MX Tools.
@j2mcgreg I use it some time now without any problem, but lets try your proposition
I changed to debians ahs kernel(no need of grub's edit key all available kernels in system form a list so at boot time it's enough choose one) but nothing changed (now clock shows the correct time and cursor from arrow become again an x. On purpose that reminds me X's pointer and behaviour of windows too)
Something goes wrong with the windowing system seems returned in the old X's good days

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System:
  Kernel: 6.6.10-3-liquorix-amd64 [6.6-14~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.6.10-3-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash fbcon=nodefer
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0
    Distro: MX-23.2_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 250 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8A1D v: 08.37 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.59
    date: 02/04/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.1 Wh (57.5%) condition: 40.2/41.0 Wh (97.9%) volts: 12.0 min: 11.3
    model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
  Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake level: v3
    note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 4
    microcode: 0x430
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 mt: 2 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 928 KiB
    desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 6.5 MiB desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
    desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 595 high: 1087 min/max: 400/2501 boost: enabled scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1087 2: 1071 3: 783 4: 800 5: 400 6: 500 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400
    10: 400 11: 500 12: 400 bogomips: 59904
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
    HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4628 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP True Vision HD Camera type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 05c8:0b05 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x153b built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.10-3-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel modules: wl pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:b85c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: yes address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 132.01 GiB (14.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN740 SDDPNQD-512G-1006
    size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: HPS3 temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: A-Data model: UE800 size: 465.76 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1000 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 463.42 GiB size: 463.42 GiB (100.00%) used: 131.69 GiB (28.4%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 973.4 MiB (95.06%) used: 329.4 MiB (33.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-4: /home raw-size: 463.42 GiB size: 463.42 GiB (100.00%) used: 131.69 GiB (28.4%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 11.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1
    maj-min: 253:1 mapped: luks-<filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2832 libs: 1280 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
    1: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fasttrack.list
    1: deb https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian/ bookworm-fasttrack main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.librewolf.net bookworm main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 396 Uptime: 30m wakeups: 20962 Memory: 7.44 GiB used: 2.14 GiB (28.7%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  clang: 14.0.6 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

#4 Post by CharlesV »

I have seen exactly what your describing, and I personally would do the following:

1) create a snapshot right now and preserve your data.

2) Back your data up using back in time or another back up program.

3) If you have recent timeshift, then :
___a) If you back up your home with timeshift, then run timeshift and create a back up now.
___b) Run timeshift again, this time restoring a the back up BEFORE teh one you just did in step a .

The panel can be fixed fairly easily with the panel restore in tweak, and you can also clear out the xfce settings to have it start fresh. But the real fix I found was to roll back to a previous timeshift.
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

#5 Post by harrykar »

...and cursor's shape changed from arrow become an x. On purpose that reminds me the good old times aka X's pointer and behaviour of windows too

Forgot to mention yesterday I did a Timeshift's rollback(only system no home) but to no avail :( . So probably that's not a wide system problem but regard only my home.
That brought me to create a second user account in the system (on occasion tried also MX users tool)with brand new skeleton of directories and .configuration files and as I thunk and now verified there is not problem at all.
So now what? We know that here some .configuration files, folders in my home for some weird reason have suddenly changed/broken and the weirdness I experience on screen is the result. All that refers locally to my home and not the wide system that's good news.
How can I do to replace the .hidden files, dirs of a new account on my broken account without more headaches?
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

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rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
Logout, login. (WM will be reset to defaults.)
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

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possbily removing any saved sessions as well. sometimes it can stupidly remember that things like the desktop or the panel are not running, and so they won't be later on session restore.
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

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Charlie Brown wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:47 am

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rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
Logout, login. (WM will be reset to defaults.)
@Charlie Brown I renamed the entire dir ~/.config/xfce4 Logout-login new dir generated but no luck same weirdness
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

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dolphin_oracle wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:15 am possbily removing any saved sessions as well. sometimes it can stupidly remember that things like the desktop or the panel are not running, and so they won't be later on session restore.
@dolphin_oracle I had save sessions ticked. Where are stored the sessions?
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Re: system corrupted without apparent reason

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you can remove them in the Sessions and Startup utility.

FYI removing the xfconf config directory while xfce and xfconf is running won't work. the files just get rewritten when xfce session is over.
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