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neutronst4r

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Registered: 2016-02-25

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[SOLVED] Booting straight to tty7

Hello,
today, I reinstalled plymouth and changed some themes around and afterwards my system won't automatically change to tty7 anymore. (X runs on tty7). Before the changes, my system would boot into tty1 and then automatically change to tty7 after maybe one second, where the the login manager slim is running just fine, and still is. I can change with Ctrl+Alt+F7 to the console, but I would prefere if the system went straight to the login manager.

I did research this a lot and I think I am basically looking for a sytemd equivalent from this thread. As far as I know sysinit isn't used anymore in arch? Atlease the wiki says it is not supported.

Thanks for the help!

Last edited by neutronst4r (2016-02-27 23:23:13)

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x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting straight to tty7

I suspect that slim is the issue. Try a different login manager.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting straight to tty7

Did you change the default target?  This would be the equivalent of sysvinit run levels.  You would want graphical.target, though I've never used this so I don't know if it changes to tty7 itself.  You can check your current target with the following:

ls -l /etc/systemd/system/default.target

If it the symlink points to mutli-user.target you'll want to enable graphical.target.

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neutronst4r

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Registered: 2016-02-25

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Booting straight to tty7

I suspect that slim is the issue. Try a different login manager.

According to the slim wiki you linked, that login manager is no longer supported. I was not aware of that, I am using lightdm now.

Did you change the default target?

There was no default target set. I did that now as described in this page. via:

# ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

After setting this, the system boots straight to tty7

Thank you for your help!

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