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SkyHead

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[SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

I'm trying to install Mate desktop on my newly installed arch linux

I instlled nvidia and nvidia-lts as I have both kernels.
I got an error so I isntalled nvidia-dkms instead
Before DKMS: https://0x0.st/Hz40.txt
After DKMS driver: https://0x0.st/Hz4k.txt

Upon boot my commmand line shows the text in above links
And upon trying  the lightdm command I get the following erorr:
lightdm
Failed to use bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, do you have appropiate permissions?

I installed mate and mate extra lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
but no luck getting a GUI after reboot or trying command to get to it.
I did enable lightdm via systemctl
I have also run pacman -Syyu and installed linux-firmware

What am I missing?

Last edited by SkyHead (2023-03-05 01:48:09)

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

post output of

uname -r && pacman -Q linux

both should be the same, if not then you probably have /boot on a seperate partition and it wasnt mounted when updating the kernel.

Last edited by jonno2002 (2023-03-04 00:53:14)

SkyHead

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

6.1.14-1-lts
6.2.2.arch1-1

I have boot at /dev/nvme1n1p1 /boot/EFI but there are no files in it.
The other partition is /dev/nvme1n1p2 but I also have windows on another disk

Last edited by SkyHead (2023-03-04 01:05:04)

jonno2002

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

post outputs of:

lsblk -f
cat /etc/fstab

EDIT: and my bad previous post should have been:

uname -r && pacman -Q linux linux-lts

as you have both installed

Last edited by jonno2002 (2023-03-04 01:50:11)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

my commmand line shows the text in above links

Did you somehow process that mess with a screenreader?

Either way, you cannot launch lightdm as regular user, but since you can login, please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … TTY_output

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I have also run pacman -Syyu

Check the pacman manpage for what the second "y" actually does and then stop using it unless you *really*, **positively** mean to because you understand why and what you're doing.
Also, if you indded updated the system, linux-lts should be at 6.1.15

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SkyHead

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

I think I used /dev/vcs1 or 0 to get the text on screen

lsblk -f  : http://0x0.st/Hzyf.txt
fstab : http://0x0.st/HzyV.txt

uname -r && pacman -Q linux linux-lts

6.1.15-lts
linux 6.2.2.arch1-1
linux-lts 6.1.15-1

journalctl -b
https://0x0.st/Hzyw.txt

No effect on lightdm conf file

Last edited by SkyHead (2023-03-04 11:58:51)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

Mar 04 12:50:04 archbox kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv012309rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]

See the blue note on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation and add ibt=off to your kernel parameters.

SkyHead

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

Mar 04 12:50:04 archbox kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv012309rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]

See the blue note on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation and add ibt=off to your kernel parameters.

This solved it, ty all

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] MATE gui and lightdm wont start

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).