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Prototype001

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Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Hey,

I just installed arch, set it up, installed KDE and adjusted it to my liking. After rebooting it randomly didn't work and it now has a static cursor right where the login screen would be.
Pressing any buttons or button combos does nothing.

Thanks for any answer!

Last edited by Prototype001 (2025-08-26 00:28:08)

_lex_1234

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Hi,

How far in the boot proces do you get?

I.e, you say no combo of keys do anything.
Did you try to swtich tty using cntr-alt-Fx ?

Since that might allow you to login, and then disable ssdm, allowing you to post logs etc.

Alex.

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Also: nvidia?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2257211

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Nope, not NVIDIA, unfortunately.
I got into the shell now, forgot to press Fn last time, logged in.
How can I see the logs or fix the issue perhaps?

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

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

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

"could not resolve host: 0x0.st"

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

You'll need internet…
In doubt

sudo journalctl -b  > /tmp/journal.txt

and then usb-walk that file to a system w/ internet connection.

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

I copied it over to my usb drive and got it onto my pc, but I cant read anything out of it.
SDDM has no "big" issues as far as I can see.
Can anybody read anything out of it?
https://privatebin.net/?8e6b3fa630aa9bc … MxpT22WEnw

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm-helper[460]: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-yNohbZ --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/elarun"
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm[445]: Greeter session started successfully
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm-helper[460]: [PAM] Closing session
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm-helper[460]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session closed for user sddm
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm-helper[460]: [PAM] Ended.
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad systemd[464]: Finished Update XDG user dir configuration.
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm[445]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 127
Aug 26 14:36:40 thinkpad sddm[445]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(127)

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General (the entire file, the link is to explain where to find it, don't just copypaste the blue box)

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Okay, here's my xorg.log
https://privatebin.net/?9f332735d25f1dc … 6QQxxx3b7p

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

[     6.981] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[     6.981] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver i965

remove xf86-video-intel

Edit: for a Skylake IGP you *might* get better performance out of the DDX driver (nb: "might") but will to have either https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … ecent_GPUs or install mesa-amber

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Now its blinking and it isnt static anymore, but still not booting up any further.
Only thing its showing me is "/dev/sda3: clean"
Does it have something to do with SDDM not starting up (and how would I enable that?)

Last edited by Prototype001 (2025-08-26 14:48:16)

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Please post an updated journal and xorg log.

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

Ofc, my bad.

Journal.txt
https://privatebin.net/?2b22257637f5073 … 8WPMoBKub3
Xorg.log
https://privatebin.net/?14a8c9a3d6702af … o35WYesp98

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

server looks fine and still

Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm-helper[465]: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-oNoBPb --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/elarun"
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm[449]: Greeter session started successfully
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm-helper[465]: [PAM] Closing session
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm-helper[465]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session closed for user sddm
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm-helper[465]: [PAM] Ended.
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm[449]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 127
Aug 26 16:51:41 thinkpad sddm[449]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(127)

Do you need https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … clarative/ for the elarun theme? What if you use breeze?
Or if you don't have/want https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … workspace/ the built-in theme? (Defining an invalid one should™ get you there)

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Prototype001

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

I thank you very much, it actually was the declarative package that was missing!

seth

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Re: Static cursor in the top left edge after rebooting

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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