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klarre

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Registered: 2019-09-06

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Immediately logged out using anything (ex. Xfce) but Gnome

Hi,

Yesterday I was messing around with the nvidia driver and now I have problems staying logged in. I'm using gdm and I have four alternatives: Gnome, Gnome Classic, Gnome Xorg and Xfce.
When I log in it immediately logs me out to the login screen again. This is true for all except Gnome.

What log files are there where I could start digging for the problem?

Thanks!

/Klarre

Last edited by klarre (2019-09-06 13:01:44)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,414

Re: [SOLVED] Immediately logged out using anything (ex. Xfce) but Gnome

Welcome to the boards, klarre

Look through

journalctl -b

for a log of the current boot. Educated guess (please clarify your hardware) you are on a laptop with hybrid graphics and should be reading about the available configuration options in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus

The reason "normal" GNOME works is that that will simply invoke Wayland on the Intel GPU and ignore the nvidia driver.

klarre

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Registered: 2019-09-06

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Immediately logged out using anything (ex. Xfce) but Gnome

Your guesses are perfectly correct, and now it works again!

I did this:

* Looked in the journalctl - b output
* Figured out that is failed to load nvidia module
* sudo pacman - S nvidia
* Added the stuff under the "Use NVIDIA graphics only" section from the link you provided
* Reboot
* Xfce works again!

Thank you for your help!

/Klarre

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,414

Re: [SOLVED] Immediately logged out using anything (ex. Xfce) but Gnome

Glad to hear, please mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the subject line in your first post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post (you might have to shorten a little to  fit the [SOLVED])