Arch Linux

Randomm

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Registered: 2018-03-26

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Cannot boot into Arch Linux. Stuck at login screen after i3 install.

Hello,

I am using Arch Linux and I have tried to install i3 on my laptop when I was trying to set this up and configure this I have done the following commands.

- pacman -S i3 dmenu xorg xorg-xinit
- exec i3

and then the "startx" command, which restarted my PC and put my back into my login screen, this is where my issue persists. I can't log into my laptop using my normal user, I don't get an incorrect password, it just flashes a blank terminal for half a second then goes back to the login screen.

I can login to Root and any other users I've created but not my main user.

Here's some info that might help:

Running Arch Linux, Kernel 4.15.12-1 ARCH, Shell zsh 5.4.2

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance

Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 95

Re: Cannot boot into Arch Linux. Stuck at login screen after i3 install.

What do you mean by "login screen"? Are you using a display manager, like GDM or LightDM?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,543

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Re: Cannot boot into Arch Linux. Stuck at login screen after i3 install.

I have done the following commands.

- pacman -S i3 dmenu xorg xorg-xinit
- exec i3

and then the "startx" command

Why did you 'exec i3'?  Where did you do that from?  If that was in a tty it would fail and you would be logged out (once).

Then you mention startx.  But what's in your ~/.xinitrc?  If you have not created/edited your ~/.xinitrc then startx will just fail (du to not finding twm or xterm).

As for being logged out (assuming the "Login Screen" you are referring to is the tty login), this would be a result of attempting to start X from a shell profile or rc file.  What have you put in these files?

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