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AJdeWit

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Registered: 2016-08-13

Posts: 15

Lightdm hangs, yet active

Hello, I'm new to this forum. Someone installed arch Linux for me quite some time ago. Loved it because it was way faster than Ubuntu and endlessly configurable.

But now, ~1 year later, lightdm decides to leave me hanging. Yesterday evening, I've spent ~7 hours to get it working again but it won't do. I've gotten so desperate, that I've manually typed the registration-question and answer for joining this forum multiple times, on a 4" phone, multiple times (I have no other computer at my disposal)

So, here's the story. I boot, nothing happens. Just a static caret in de top left corner

http://i.imgur.com/RqsZRfJ.jpg

I switched to tty2, checked systemctl status lightdm
http://i.imgur.com/vbcoCkR.jpg
Weird

/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
http://i.imgur.com/e26GMEj.webp

At this point I'm really desperate. I have no idea what to do next.

Last edited by AJdeWit (2016-08-13 09:31:01)

adamovic

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Registered: 2016-08-12

Posts: 5

Re: Lightdm hangs, yet active

Hi,

I'm newbie itself and stumbled upon your question.

If no one provides a better solution, what I would try at your place is to remove lightdm and install another display manager.

Also perhaps to upgrade the system with

pacman -Syu

?

Just a guess from another newbie ;-)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 7,732

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Re: Lightdm hangs, yet active

I boot, nothing happens. Just a static caret in de top left corner

http://i.imgur.com/RqsZRfJ.jpg

Try disabling KMS

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … odesetting

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