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superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 6

boot errors using a display manager

Hi,
I just installed Arch Linux into my VM (vmware Player) and I´m now trying to get a running desktop environment.
In order to do so I installed xorg-server, plasma (KDE) and SDDM as display manager (of course I enabled it). That resulted in this error during boot time:

[TIME]"Time out waiting for device sys-subsystem-net-devices-interface_name.device.
[DEPEND]Dependency failed for dhcp on interface_name.
[OK] Reached target Network.
[OK] Reaches target Multi-User System.
[OK] Reached target Graphical Interface." 

Then it just stops, but I can use Alt + Ctlr + F2 to login.

After disabling SDDM it the error disappeared.
I attempted  installing LightDM instead. Now there´s another error as well:

Starting Light Display Manager...
[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager.
See "systemctl status lightdm.service" for details
Stopping Light Display Manager..
[OK] Stopped Light Display Manager.

This is displayed a several times.
Then there´s again the timeout error below.

systemctl status lightdm.service says:

lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since So 2015-02-08 20:29:10 CET; 2min 27s ago
     Docs: man:lightdm(1)
  Process: 219 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 219 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service

Feb 08 20:29:09 Lukas systemd[1]: lightdm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 08 20:29:09 Lukas systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
Feb 08 20:29:09 Lukas systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state.
Feb 08 20:29:09 Lukas systemd[1]: lightdm.service failed.
Feb 08 20:29:10 Lukas systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for lightdm.service
Feb 08 20:29:10 Lukas systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
Feb 08 20:29:10 Lukas systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state.
Feb 08 20:29:10 Lukas systemd[1]: lightdm.service failed.

Installing the xf86-video-vmware didn´t help.

Please excuse any linguistic errors, i´m from Germany.

Thanks!
superuser

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: boot errors using a display manager

Hi,

I have no experience with Arch in VMware Player. But, did you do everything listed here. Did you install the dependencies? Did you properly configure files if necessary?

If so, try this: disable the display manager, boot to the console, install xorg-init, and try to manually start x like so:

startx

let us know the result. This will allow you to narrow down the source of the problem. Though, I suspect you might need to do the extra two or three configuration steps listed in the link above...

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superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 6

Re: boot errors using a display manager

Thank you for the reply!
vm-mouse and mesa were necessary for starting the x-server. So startx works now, whereas LightDM still produces an error.
Besides the resolution can´t be adjusted to 1920x1080 in the System Settings. I tried to solve this with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf, which I took from the wiki.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier             "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier             "Device0"
    Driver                 "xf86-video-vmware"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier             "Screen0" 
    Device                 "Device0"
    Monitor                "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth           16 
    SubSection             "Display"
        Depth              16
        Modes              "1920x1080_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

As you can see, I just replaced the lines with comments, because I didn´t know what to do with the others.
Perheaps this is the reason that startx doesn´t work using this configuration ("Failed to load xf86-video-vmware" and "no screens found").

Last edited by superuser (2015-02-14 14:44:22)

superuser

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Registered: 2015-02-12

Posts: 6

Re: boot errors using a display manager

By the way, KDE 5 doesn´t even have a file manager or a terminal by default. Is it possible to install tall the packets that belong to KDE (konsole, Dolphin etc.)?