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I'm running Arch as my primary, plus Arch in Virtualbox for learning, testing, etc.
In my latest VM, I installed lightdm and a number of desktop environments.
On reboot, I get "Failed to start Light Display Manager" and "See systemctl status lightdm.service for details". Then a hung system.
Is there any way to bypass the display manager on reboot? Perhaps a grub option? Or do I need an Arch live CD, chroot, etc?
I could always revert to the previous snapshot but I'd lose a lot of work...
Thanks...
Last edited by linusvanpelt (2017-07-24 13:53:03)
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D'oh. Additional Googling reminded me of Alt-F2, Alt-F3, etc for additional consoles.
However, systemctl status lightdm.service didn't tell me much:
lightdm.service: Unit entered failed state
lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status (line truncated)
Can you advise debugging steps to follow?
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Thanks heaps. One of the reasons I chose Arch is it would force me to learn more about Linux, rather than a distro hiding the details from me.
So I appreciate the links, rather than spoon feeding me info. Guess I need to read more of the Wiki! Or at least learn "where stuff is".
My problem is solved. I followed this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM, but neglected to install the greeter. Once I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter (per the instructions) all was well again.
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Glad I could help
Don't forget to mark this thread solved...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50161
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