Broken Budgie

[romko]

Hi, I’ve been a happy Budgie user 2 years and never had a single bug.
Suddenly, today as I log into Budgie, I can see my desktop for a second or two, then it switches to a grey screen with a sad smiley saying:
“Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occured and the system can’t recover.
Please log out and try again”

1. I could log in into Kodi DE (the only alternative DE I had)
2. using Ctrl+Alt+F2 I switched to terminal, installed Gnome
3. Gnome is working perfectly fine
4. I remove Budgie-desktop and Budgie-extras (pacman -Rs)
5. I rebooted my laptop and installed Budgie-desktopand Budgie-extras again
   But I still get the same error when I try to log into Budgie.
   Gnome DE is working fine.

Is there a way I can repair my Budgie DE? I really love it.
Apologies, if a similar topic exists,I searched and couldn’t fine.

Thank you so much in advance!!!

[xircon]

Is it the same as this?

No Desktop after latest libxfce4windowing update

After updating today via yay no login to Budgie was possible. Only a white screen apears. Switching to console (ctrl+alt+F-Keys) brings only the monitor in sleep mode. [IMG_0564] Activating Budgie menu with Windows-Key worked, so i could start a terminal

[pebcak]

Hi, I saw this thread earlier today:

No Desktop after latest libxfce4windowing update

After updating today via yay no login to Budgie was possible. Only a white screen apears. Switching to console (ctrl+alt+F-Keys) brings only the monitor in sleep mode. [IMG_0564] Activating Budgie menu with Windows-Key worked, so i could start a terminal

See if your issue is also related to update to the package mentioned.

Edit: @xircon beat me to it.

[romko]

THANK YOU SO MUCH
It has worked! Downgrading the package was the solution!!!

[SnazzySyrup]

I’m in the same boat. I just updated my machine a couple minutes ago. I get a login prompt, I enter my password. My Budgie desktop wallpaper pops up and as soon as my panel appears, I get the gray error screen.

I rebooted and loaded my pre-update snapshot (running snapper & BTRFS) to come here to see if this was a known issue.

I just want to confirm that libxfce-4windowing was the only package that needs to be unwound.

Thanks!

[romko]

Hi Snazzy,
Yes, it was the only package I had to downgrade. Everything works fine.

[SnazzySyrup]

Thank you so much!

[romko]

A new version of the package has just been released. libxfce4windowing 4.19.3-2
The upgrade went fine for me, no issues.

[SnazzySyrup]

Confirmed!
I just updated my “broken” Budgie snapshot and everything went smoothly. It’s now safe to update Budgie installs.

Thanks to everyone involved who made this correction so quickly.
Cheers!