Upgrade broke window manager :(

Question

Hi,
I had installed xfce 4.8 with liquorix kernel, everything was working smoothly until i got notification about some packages available for upgrade which also included linux kernel (though not sure if it was liquorix or stock kernel that came with arch). I upgraded and on reboot found everything behaving weirdly, no border for any window, also minimize, maximize, close buttons were missing. Mouse cursor had turned into a black x. When i launched terminal it mentioned window manager was not found.
Can anyone please help me in reverting back to my old desktop session or how can i fix these issues?
Any help is highly appreciated as my desktop is broke :-'(
Thanks.

Answer 1

@Murray_B - I did have xfce working fine until i upgraded and that seemed to have borked something on xfce, since lxde & e17 works fine.
I usually start xfce with this command -> exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4
@stqn - will try your suggestion, however not sure if i can boot into the normal Arch kernel as i had installed liquorix kernel since the original one gave me kernel panic issues quite often and this is how my boot dir look like -
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2038064 Jan 29 14:42 vmlinuz26.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1687004 Feb  5 09:43 kernel26.img.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2852224 Feb 16 21:58 vmlinuz26-lqx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1435139 Feb 16 21:58 System.map26-lqx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8501861 Feb 16 22:07 kernel26-lqx-fallback.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Feb 16 22:10 kernel26.img.priorLink -> kernel26-lqx.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2039392 Feb 18 12:00 vmlinuz26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1156042 Feb 18 12:00 System.map26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1687004 Feb 23 20:38 kernel26-lqx.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8362292 Feb 23 20:39 kernel26-fallback.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Feb 23 21:07 kernel26.img -> kernel26-fallback.img
I can try copying *.orig back and try to load through them, let me if that works fine.
Also in E17 when i open up settings->settings panel all i get is a big window spanning the entire screen with just a close button, all other options are not available :-(. Any idea what the issue could be?
Thanks for your suggestions.