[SOLVED, I hope] Xfce and Firefox "renewed" by shutdown

I closed all the apps, exited X and turned the box off # shutdown -h now
On booting the next day, xfce was reset to "just installed" status (all settings gone) and Firefox was brand new, welcoming me for the "first" time -- no bookmarks. I never saw the like. It's no train wreck, but....
EDIT:
OK, that's bizarre. In spite of the fact that I did everything as always, another login to the GUI in Arch produced a restored xfce and Firefox. Even the bookmarks are back. I can't explain it, but I'm not going to refuse the help of the resident Poltergeist. Now: how do I keep him friendly?
Last edited by Vagabond (2010-12-05 09:49:15)

Thank you all for a quick response
anonymous_user wrote:
Does lsusb show your devices or no?
Also try connecting the device(s) to different USB ports.
lsusb shows nothing, like anything is pluged in, every hardware is fine, I booted with a fedora live USB and the mouse and flashdrives worked
toad wrote:So you don't need the formatter, but the other stuff is useful. Also, what does dmesg say?
I put what dmesg says on a pastebin here
toad wrote:toad@archtop 500\1 ~ > pacman -Q |grep usb
libusb 1.0.8-1
libusb-compat 0.1.3-1
quick-usb-formatter 0.4-1
usbmuxd 1.0.6-2
usbutils 001-2
this returns the next:
libusb 0.1.12-4
libusb1 1.0.8-1
usbmuxd 1.0.4-2
usbutils 0.87-1
teop wrote:And that all can be different problems.
You can try installing xf86-input-evdev and see if mouse works.
If it works than usbsticks may not be working due to policikit problems.
I've installed that and didn't change a thing :S
Last edited by xangelux (2011-02-19 20:41:17)

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