[SOLVED] FEdora 17 Xfce theme crushing

[mrfool]

Hi, I am new to Fedora. I am just wondering what should I do if the default theme failed to start. I know it sounds a bit ambiguous so I took a screenshot of the situation. *Please note the theme in my pic. *I need help in restoring to the default theme
http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...2-034313PM.png

[secipolla]

Where's the pic?
Open Menu>Settings>Appearance and see if you can change themes there.

[mrfool]

The link is now fixed

[mrfool]

Help please

[secipolla]

Sorry, I thought you were saying the issue was fixed.
That what happened is the window manager that crashed.
Run

xfwm4 --replace

Then after it's ok, open Menu>Settings>Session and Startup go to Session tab and click on Save Session.

[mrfool]

[root@localhost mr-fool]# xfwm4 --replace

(xfwm4:1376): xfwm4-CRITICAL **: Xfconf could not be initialized

(xfwm4:1376): xfwm4-WARNING **: Missing data from default files

Still no goal

[secipolla]

Try this then:

• logout
• press ctrl+alt+f2
• login (put your username and the password)
• rm -rf .cache/sessions
• exit
• press ctrl+alt+f1
• login again

[mrfool]

Still no goal

[StephenH]

Try installing Xfce 4.10?

See this link: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/

If you download the repo information and add it to your /etc/yum.repos.d directory, you can then use "yum update" to install Xfce 4.10. I have found it to be much better than 4.08.

I can't say for sure that it would fix your problem, but it might. Plus, it has some new features such as the ability to rotate desktop wallpapers that are nice.

[mrfool]

created xfce.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d

[xfce]
name=xfce
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

run yum update in the terminal

root@localhost mr-fool]# http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found : http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/repodata/repomd.xml
bash: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/repodata/repomd.xml:: No such file or directory

[StephenH]

# Place this file in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory

[fedora-xfce-4.10]
name=Xfce 4.10 for Fedora
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kevin/xfce-4.10/fedora-$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

If you look at this version and compare with what you posted, you will see that they are different. Yours is missing the release and architecture information on the baseurl line. This version is the .repo file that is on the page to which I sent the link.

Please try again with the correct fedora-xfce-4.10.repo information. I think you will find that it works okay.

[mrfool]

output of yum update

---> Package xfce4-settings.x86_64 0:4.8.3-4.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-settings.x86_64 0:4.10.0-1.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin.x86_64 0:0.4.4-2.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin.x86_64 0:0.4.4-4.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-systemload-plugin.x86_64 0:1.0.0-4.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-systemload-plugin.x86_64 0:1.1.1-1.fc17.1 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-time-out-plugin.x86_64 0:1.0.0-3.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-time-out-plugin.x86_64 0:1.0.1-2.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-timer-plugin.x86_64 0:0.6.1-9.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-timer-plugin.x86_64 0:0.6.1-11.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-verve-plugin.x86_64 0:1.0.0-4.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-verve-plugin.x86_64 0:1.0.0-7.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-weather-plugin.x86_64 0:0.8.1-1.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-weather-plugin.x86_64 0:0.8.1-1.fc17.1 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-websearch-plugin.x86_64 0:0.1.1-0.16.20070428svn2704.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-websearch-plugin.x86_64 0:0.1.1-0.18.20070428svn2704.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-xfswitch-plugin.x86_64 0:0.0.1-5.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-xfswitch-plugin.x86_64 0:0.0.1-7.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfce4-xkb-plugin.x86_64 0:0.5.4.1-3.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfce4-xkb-plugin.x86_64 0:0.5.4.1-5.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfconf.x86_64 0:4.8.1-2.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfconf.x86_64 0:4.10.0-1.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfdesktop.x86_64 0:4.8.3-3.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfdesktop.x86_64 0:4.10.0-3.fc17 will be an update
---> Package xfwm4.x86_64 0:4.8.3-2.fc17 will be updated
---> Package xfwm4.x86_64 0:4.10.0-3.fc17 will be an update
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gtkmm30.x86_64 0:3.4.0-1.fc17 will be installed
---> Package libxfce4util.x86_64 0:4.8.2-2.fc17 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libxfce4util.so.4()(64bit) for package: xfce4-places-plugin-1.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
---> Package xfce4-panel.x86_64 0:4.8.6-4.fc17 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3()(64bit) for package: xfce4-places-plugin-1.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xfce4-places-plugin-1.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64 (@updates)
           Requires: libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3()(64bit)
           Removing: xfce4-panel-4.8.6-4.fc17.x86_64 (@koji-override-0/$releasever)
               libxfce4panel-1.0.so.3()(64bit)
           Updated By: xfce4-panel-4.10.0-1.fc17.x86_64 (fedora-xfce-4.10)
               Not found
Error: Package: xfce4-places-plugin-1.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64 (@updates)
           Requires: libxfce4util.so.4()(64bit)
           Removing: libxfce4util-4.8.2-2.fc17.x86_64 (@koji-override-0/$releasever)
               libxfce4util.so.4()(64bit)
           Updated By: libxfce4util-4.10.0-1.fc17.x86_64 (fedora-xfce-4.10)
               Not found
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

then I tried yum install xfce

[root@localhost mr-fool]# yum install xfce
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.web-ster.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.web-ster.com
 * updates: fedora.mirror.nexicom.net
No package xfce available.
Error: Nothing to do

[ozjd]

The xfce4-places-plugin is a known problem that has been fixed, see http://lists.fedoraproject.org/piper...er/001504.html . Your mirror probably hasn't caught up yet. Leave it a little while and try again.

[mrfool]

Although let's not a really scientific answer, I will give it a try.
1 day without my fedora :<

[secipolla]

Just do as suggested by yum:

yum upgrade --skip-broken