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hypothetical

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Registered: 2015-12-20

Posts: 6

No response after logout

Hello everyone, being new to the arch world, I would like some help regarding an issue:
Whenever I logout, I get this blank(black) screen with a cursor in the middle of the screen(which does not respond either). None of Alt-F2, Ctrl+Alt+F2(or any Fn's) work. There is absolutely no response from the laptop.
Specs:
Model: Asus K53SM
RAM: 8GB,
Graphic card: NVIDIA(2GB, 630M
HDD: 3 partitions(1 for OS, 1 for home and 1 for storage)
DE's installed: GNOME, Deepin, Xfce, KDE
Thanks in advance, cheers!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,611

Re: No response after logout

A cursor?  As an Xorg cursor, or a console window with a cursor?
Are you using a display manager?  Which one?
Can you ping the box from another computer?  Can you ssh into it?

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SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

Re: No response after logout

Hello everyone, being new to the arch world, I would like some help regarding an issue:
Whenever I logout, I get this blank(black) screen with a cursor in the middle of the screen(which does not respond either). None of Alt-F2, Ctrl+Alt+F2(or any Fn's) work. There is absolutely no response from the laptop.
Specs:
Model: Asus K53SM
RAM: 8GB,
Graphic card: NVIDIA(2GB, 630M
HDD: 3 partitions(1 for OS, 1 for home and 1 for storage)
DE's installed: GNOME, Deepin, Xfce, KDE
Thanks in advance, cheers!

I'm experiencing the same issue after installing a GTX 970. Although I don't get a cursor stuck in awesome WM, but there is like a couple of seconds of the cursor hanging around for a few seconds when I quit Plasma.

As a disclaimer, I did have to reinstall my bootmanager after a BIOS update made Windows the boot up OS. I'm confident it isn't related but just throwing it in there.

I installed nvidia and nvidia-libgl. I have both plasma and awesomeWM installed. It happens on both. Whenever I logout I get thrown into a black screen.  I don't have any login manager and I start both of them with startx. This also happens when I REBOOT from inside one of those desktops. I'm assuming because it tries to go back to a tty before rebooting. Finally, I also tried switching to a TTY without even logging in after a reboot and sure enough, black screen of nothing.

I did some Googling and it seems to be happening for people with the nvidia driver. Nothing concrete though. Here is my last journalctl -b entries.

http://pastebin.com/raw/V2S09AHQ

SirMyztiq

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Registered: 2015-03-24

Posts: 118

Re: No response after logout

Update:

So, I figured out the issue thanks to the Wiki(who knew?!)https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … grated_GPU

This applies to me since I have a integrated GPU. Hopefully it helps.

hypothetical

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Registered: 2015-12-20

Posts: 6

Re: No response after logout

A cursor?  As an Xorg cursor, or a console window with a cursor?
Are you using a display manager?  Which one?
Can you ping the box from another computer?  Can you ssh into it?

The cursor that I had was an Xorg cursor. And for the DM, I have lightdm and gdm installed, with the gdm.service being enabled.
The problem seems to have something with the gdm, because everything seems to be working fine after switching back to Lightdm.

leeking

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Registered: 2014-02-14

Posts: 3

Re: No response after logout

according to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1600369
added WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and restart gdm will help