Awesome wm not launching after login, not sure why.

Hyeeena · 2025-09-09 16:58:44

This has been going on for a few weeks now, and my window manager, awesome, appears to not be starting after my login manager. Usually, how I remedy this issue is I open a tty and manually startx , and it seems to work. This solution is annoying and I'd love any troubleshooting suggestions on how I could investigate this to make it work like it's supposed to, lol.

I tried to throw in `exec awesome` on .xinitrc but I'm thinking the issue is more with my xserver rather than my awesome wm.

seth · 2025-09-09 18:29:07

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General and also your xinitrc.

Edit: also, what happens instead? Do you just end up w/ a shell or do you get logged out again?

Last edited by seth (2025-09-09 18:29:59)

Hyeeena · 2025-09-09 19:08:27

xorg log: https://pastebin.com/WwBh4qhH

my xinitrc is literally just.. exec awesome

What happens instead is I just get kicked into a black screen with a cursor, and I have to manually open a tty.

seth · 2025-09-09 19:17:43

[     5.556] (II) modeset(G0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[     5.556] (II) modeset(G0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: nouveau
[     5.556] (II) modeset(G0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nouveau
[     5.556] (EE) modeset(G0): Failed to create pixmap

Do you use nvidia or nvidia-open?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p2259856
Try to delay the login/X11 start

my xinitrc is literally just.. exec awesome

See the last link below, second blue note - it's not the immediate problem, but still.

Resp.

I tried to throw in `exec awesome` on .xinitrc but I'm thinking the issue is more with my xserver rather than my awesome wm.

do you normally startx at all or are you using some DM like SDDM or lightdm etc?

Hyeeena · 2025-09-11 18:31:21

ok, I fixed my xinitrc to be the default config, I also see exec awesome in that one, so I assume that one works fine. It hasn't changed my performance, though, and is still doing the same problem on login. I use the open version of nvidia drivers. The official ones break my computer.

I put a /usr/bin/sleep of 1 in my lighdm prestart conf, no change, and then changed it to 5 and then same issue, but then when I attempted to startx, it failed giving this error:

X.Org X Server 1.21.1.18
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Current Operating System: Linux Ion 6.16.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:38:07 +0000 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=eb44382a-5230-46f0-861a-43a96f168a40 rw zswap.enabled=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=3 quiet
 
Current version of pixman: 0.46.4
	Before reporting problems, check [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/hyena/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log", Time: Thu Sep 11 14:27:05 2025
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
pci id for fd 19: 10de:25a0, driver (null)
pci id for fd 20: 10de:25a0, driver (null)
(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
(EE) 
(EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	at [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
 for help. 
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/hyena/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
(EE) 
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

Last edited by Hyeeena (2025-09-11 21:21:30)

seth · 2025-09-11 19:40:30

also see exec awesome in that one, so I assume that one works fine

Don't assume, in doubt post it.

Please use [code][/code] tags, the BBS predates markdown by æons. Edit your post in this regard.

Don't try to run startx when using lightdm, post the updated xorg log and also your lightdm log (see /var/log/lightdm*)

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#1 2025-09-09 16:58:44

Awesome wm not launching after login, not sure why.

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