Update problem...

[yourevilmonkey]

I recently updated through spritz and i restarted and now i dont have any window manager that pops up. Gnome is my normal window manager but after I updated I dont get anything to show up on screen. How can I repair this?

[joeoden]

now i dont have any window manager that pops up

What do you mean?

Black screen, black screen with flashing cursor or something else

More info might help (video card)

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[WarraWarra]

Yes please post more info / define what you mean no windows manager ?
Is gnome missing ?
Is the login screen missing ?

Or is the background there with icons and no task bar / menu on top and bottom of the screen, fixed mine that was like this by reinstalling gnome as some part got missing and I selected gnome plug-ins to install = pulled the missing parts / needed parts back into life for me.

Either way the easiest fix to most problems is:

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equo update ; equo install equo sulfur entropy layman portage ; equo conf update ; equo libtest ; equo deptest

Copy and paste as is to terminal or type in manually.

This updates equo then installs equo sulfur"spritz" entropy ... then updates the configuration then check and fixes the library's then check and fixes the dependency's or in english it fixes broken and installs missing or corrupted and brings it back to life.

If you can not get to terminal then follow the stuff below.

PS> if in terminal or have to reboot to get to anything useful you would need to on pc reboot press "e" 2 times once to get to the grub list "kernel /kernel-sab..... and once more on the longest boot command and add:

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nox

then press enter to accept and return and press "b" to boot new temporary changed command.

This will get you to a terminal / text root login screen with no gnome or kde loaded and can manually fix it with above commands.

You would also need to get the internet working if not already working:

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ifconfig

You should see one of the networking eth0 as example has 192.168.123.123 or similar address then you should be good to go / on the network / internet.
or

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ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0

If it can not connect then check /etc/resolv.conf

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nano /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 4.2.2.1

Then try again.

[hantke]

I hade the same problem =S, it was not a black screen, it was strange, white screen with a xterm, i had kde

[WarraWarra]

You can also try to use:
equo install --deep gnome-menus

Trying this after I broke mine to find a solution.

Please let us know if anything worked and how as it might help others as well.