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Mula

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Registered: 2020-08-24

Posts: 3

GNOME will start with 'startx' but refuse to boot

Hello, I recently installed Arch and I had this problem sience then.
I installed Gnome and everthing that comes with it but my laptop refuses to boot into it, instead I get a blinking cursor in the top right corner.
After CTRL + ALT + FN + F6 I get prompted to login, and after that and typing startx I can normally boot into gnome.
Also this only works on root, other account just boot in a gnome-ish enviorment that has only 3 bash terminals running.
I tried to uncomment Wayland line but sadly nothing changed it.

Because i'm new I really don't know which information do you need and which logs so I will be monitoring this thread as much as possible to provide enough info.

I hope that someone can help me to reslove this annoying issue.
Best regards

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: GNOME will start with 'startx' but refuse to boot

What do you expect to happen instead of a blinking white cursor? Have you installed, configured, and enabled a display manager? Have you set up autologin in some way? What "wayland line" did you uncomment, and why?

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V1del

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Re: GNOME will start with 'startx' but refuse to boot

Try enabling early KMS for the kernel module of your graphics adapter