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rakeshdas

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Registered: 2016-01-20

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SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

When I attempted to boot my computer this morning, it got stuck on 

[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface 

For my graphical interface, I use KDE plasma with SDDM as the login/display manager. When I say stuck, I really mean stuck, I have read other people on the forums with this same issue who have solved it by pressing enter and ctrl+alt+f2 to switch into another tty to fix up the issue, I can't even do that. Although, the terminal cursor on the bottom of my screen blinks very quickly.

So I created an Arch installation USB and booted into the USB, chrooting into my existing Arch installation. after I ran journalctl, I found this error:

 QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper") is still running.

I searched around on the forums and saw that someone else had this issue as well and they had an Nvidia graphics card, which I also do have and their solution was to reinstall the

nvidia

package. I did so in my chrooted environment and did the proper configurations, outlined here, but no dice. I still get stuck on the same message.

So, does anyone have any other suggestions on how might be able to get my computer to boot?

Last edited by rakeshdas (2017-11-14 18:26:05)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Please elaborate on what you mean by "get my computer to boot"
You could stop sddm by using Systemd#Change_default_target_to_boot_into to boot to multi-uer.target so sddm would not start.
Then disable sddm.

jasonwryan

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Please edit your thread title to reflect the fact that you can boot, you just can't start your graphical environment.

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rakeshdas

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Registered: 2016-01-20

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Please edit your thread title to reflect the fact that you can boot, you just can't start your graphical environment.

Done

rakeshdas

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Registered: 2016-01-20

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Please elaborate on what you mean by "get my computer to boot"
You could stop sddm by using Systemd#Change_default_target_to_boot_into to boot to multi-uer.target so sddm would not start.
Then disable sddm.

Alright, wouldn't I need a display manager like SDDM to boot into KDE though?

dawja

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From: New England

Registered: 2014-09-20

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Do you have other DMs and WMs that you can try to use to see if it works?

jasonwryan

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

You don't need a display manager for anything.

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loqs

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Re: SDDM won't start, stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface"

Alright, wouldn't I need a display manager like SDDM to boot into KDE though?

KDE#From_the_console
If you wish the issue with SDDM to be resolved please supply all the information from the journal related to SDDM from a boot where the service fails.
Also what changed since SDDM last started successfully? (package updates / configuration changes)