systemd graphical.target leads to black screen

drewofdoom · 2012-08-21 17:54:19

Using a pure systemd setup, I'm trying to boot directly to a display manager.

If I enable the gdm, slim, or lightdm services, the system will drop to a black screen after boot. This does not seem to be an "empty screen," but rather that the system is shutting off my laptop screen.

To regain control of the system, I must reboot and add "systemd.unit=mutli-user.target" to the boot command and drop down to the terminal. From there I can either call "systemctl start display-manager.service" or "systemctl isolate graphical.target" successfully and boot into any of the display managers.

My graphics hardware is an AMD r600 chipset on the FOSS drivers.

I haven't been able to find any messages in any logs (xorg, dmesg, journalctl, etc.) that mention why this is happening.

drewofdoom · 2012-08-21 20:26:41

No ideas whatsoever? I've googled all over the damn place, read through lots and lots of forums that are almost helpful. I'm at a loss here.

What would cause something to not work when it's at the end of the systemd boot process but work fine when run from the command line?

drewofdoom · 2012-08-22 14:21:39

So, disabled the "quiet" flag just to see if I can see what's happening. And it booted right in. So it seems that everything is just happening too fast. Might see if I can slow down the boot process a little, then take it off of verbose mode.

wry · 2012-09-06 01:47:10

I'm having the same problem. Eliminating "quiet" helped _some_ of the time. Now I have a fifty fifty chance of being able to log in after boot.

Stebalien · 2012-09-06 14:26:24

If disabling the quiet flag magically makes it work sometimes, report a bug.

wry · 2012-09-07 19:48:55

Stebalien wrote:

If disabling the quiet flag magically makes it work sometimes, report a bug.

I would, but it doesn't "fix" the problem _all_ the time. Just sometimes.

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#1 2012-08-21 17:54:19

systemd graphical.target leads to black screen

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