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I just cleaned up my installed packages: removed unnecessary DEs and some other packages I'm not using. And this issue just disappeared.
I'd be grateful if you could list the packages you most recently removed - I've got a bunch of other DEs installed and a few AUR packages, and I don't want to remove them all if it's unnecessary.
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Sorry, I left my laptop at home. But I remember that I removed wmii, lxde + openbox, and xfce4. If it will not help you I can post my latest pacman.log records later.
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Sorry, I left my laptop at home. But I remember that I removed wmii, lxde + openbox, and xfce4. If it will not help you I can post my latest pacman.log records later.
This could be helpful thank you.
In other news, to troubleshoot I have installed Bridge Linux (Arch live distro with a Gnome desktop on a spare disk and played around with a couple of things to sanity check.
It's allegedly using pure Arch repos.
Gdm and Gnome-shell work OK from that install, with the nouveau driver.
They also work with the Nvidia driver, though as expected I had to copy over my /etc/xorg.conf.d/10-monitors.conf and the custom EDID file for my monitor to get an image. Everything works perfectly with no xorg.conf.d files for my old, sane, samsung monitor.
Although everything is functioning correctly, if I type:
systemctl status gdmIn a terminal on this install, I still get the same gdm error messages I previously reported on my main Arch install
gdm[312]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.I may now re-install arch from scratch to test if this gives a functional gdm, but I'm concerned about the cause of this error.
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