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MickeyKnox

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 169

[SOLVED] lightdm / xorg does not work after update

I ran an update yesterday and today lightdm (or probably xorg) doesn't work anymore:

$ systemctl status lightdm
* lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disab>
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-07-03 15:34:18 CEST; 5min ago
     Docs: man:lightdm(1)
  Process: 395 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 395 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Service hold-off time over, schedulin>
Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counte>
Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 03 15:34:18 skynet systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.

Also startx doesn't start X:

$ startx

/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

I have an ATI Radeon HD 7870 graphics card. The xf86-video-ati package was installed; I tried the xf86-video-amdgpu package, no luck.

How should I proceed?

Last edited by MickeyKnox (2018-07-03 14:34:02)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] lightdm / xorg does not work after update

"/usr/bin/X: No such file or directory" is pretty concerning. Reinstall it, and run pacman -Qkk to see what other problems you have.

MickeyKnox

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 169

Re: [SOLVED] lightdm / xorg does not work after update

That should've been my cue, thanks.
It wasn't the update after all then, I just blindly removed everything showing up from pacman -Qdt. xorg-server was in the mix - I think it shouldn't, but I should've paid more attention.

Last edited by MickeyKnox (2018-07-03 14:34:23)