Arch Linux

kumala

Member

Registered: 2016-03-11

Posts: 22

[solved] Lightdm shows a black screen when booting

I have just re-installed arch on my Lenovo X1 carbon 4th gen.
I first tried to install lightdm alone, without greeter, configured to auto login my user using i3. I noticed the system booted correctly and started i3 with my user but with a black screen. I could interact with i3 and launch applications but I could not see anything. I had to switch to a TTY and then come back to the graphical environment to actually see what I was doing.
I thought maybe lightdm needs a greeter so I tried with lightdm-gtk-greeter and got the same result. I then tried with lightdm-slick-greeter and still have the same result.
When I restart lightdm with systemctl then it works as expected, the issue only happens after boot.
I have read other similar threads but could not find the exact same issue, and none of the solutions worked for me.

Any idea is welcome.
thanks.

Last edited by kumala (2021-02-19 06:51:01)

seth

Member

From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,582

Re: [solved] Lightdm shows a black screen when booting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output
Possibly a race condition about the GPU init, in that case: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … _KMS_start

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

kumala

Member

Registered: 2016-03-11

Posts: 22

Re: [solved] Lightdm shows a black screen when booting

Thanks seth, indeed

logind-check-graphical=true

solved it.
I thought I had read that wiki already, sorry for the noise.