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XFCE black screen with a movable pointer, but nothing else, after update

Hi!
Today I installed Rosegarden, Qsynth, jack2, qjackctl to my Artix on a multiboot external hd.

This  machine has been running well for a couple years on most of is Linux distros, with  normal eventual problems - often caused by lack of knowledge/experience on my part.

As usual I installed the packages with the format:
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sudo pacman -Syu <packagename>

Upon rebooting I get a login screen (by xfwml) and when I login I get a black screen and a pointer which I can move around, but nothing  else happens.

I can Ctrl-Alt-Del but get a spinning point which spins forever.

I could Ctrl-Alt-F3 and then did reinstall 'xfdesktop' (4.18.1_1) and 'xfwml' (4.18.0_1) but to no avail.

pacman informs there is nothing to update.

Some info:

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# inxi -b
System:
  Host: arthur-lifebooke743 Kernel: 6.1.32-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 3
    Distro: Artix Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: FUJITSU product: LIFEBOOK E743 v: 10601582231 serial: DSDC018923
  Mobo: FUJITSU model: FJNB265 v: B1 serial: E5 F0JO UEFI-[Legacy]: FUJITSU // Phoenix
    v: Version 1.12 date: 03/27/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: CMB1 charge: 13.6 Wh (63.8%) condition: 21.3/62.6 Wh (34.0%) volts: 10.8 min: 10.8
CPU:
  Info: dual core Intel Core i5-3230M [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 1758 min/max: 1200/3200
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony FJ Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 tty: 100x28 resolution: 1600x900
  API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console and glxinfo missing.
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 driver: iwlwifi
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 13.27 GiB (0.9%)
Info:
  Processes: 190 Uptime: 29m Memory: available: 7.61 GiB used: 1.08 GiB (14.2%) Init: OpenRC
  runlevel: default Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.27


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inxi -Gxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Fujitsu . LIFEBOOK E752 driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-7 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,
    HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166
  Device-2: Chicony FJ Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    bus-ID: 1-1.6:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b3b4
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 compositor: xfwm driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 tty: 100x28
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG Display 0x0362 res: 1600x900 dpi: 132 diag: 355mm (14")
  API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console and glxinfo missing.



etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/  contains only '00-keyboard.conf'


/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ contains: 10-amdgpu.conf,  10-quirks.conf, 10-radeon.conf, 40-libinput.conf and 50-vmmouse.conf, which I will post if required.

Xorg.0.log enclosed as .txt