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HommeViande

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Registered: 2018-07-22

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] tty crash with any desktop manager

Hi,

I recently installed arch with i3 and wanted to install lightdm to avoid the pain of typing my login and password with a qwerty keyboard instead of my azerty, and so that startx would automatically be executed.
So I installed lightdm and the default greeter. When I rebooted, it blackscreened, I was able to change of tty, and tty1 was blocked, without any error message, though tty2 worked perfectly and I could execute startx from it.
systemctl status lightdm didn't show any error, so I tried some solutions found on internet but nothig worked.
I tried to install xdm instead but it didn't work either, this time not only did tty1 crash, but changing of tty was slow and painful.
When both xdm and lightdm were disabled, I booted perfectly on tty1...
Last thing I tried was to install gdm but now I am stuck on tty1 and can't even type anything, so I can't even disable it !
All my computer says is :

starting version  239
/dev/nvme0n1p6: clean, 264978/14057472 files, 3521910/56207616 blocks

My computer is a dell XPS 15.
I have the nvidia driver installed, run on a dual-boot with windows thanks to grub (though windows isn't listed by grub yet, which is, with the working display manager, the last thing I needed to consider my whole installation successful)

In the first place my priority is to get rid of gdm but I have no idea of how to disable it in my situation, then it would be nice (though secondary) to have a working lightdm.

Thanks in advance for your help

Edit : I managed to disable gdm by booting with a usb key ! Only the fact that nothing works remains to fix

Last edited by HommeViande (2018-07-23 08:55:32)

Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: [SOLVED] tty crash with any desktop manager

Black screen when Desktop Environment start seems to be a common nvidia driver issue for many people, have you installed Bumblebee?

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] tty crash with any desktop manager

I managed to disable gdm by booting with a usb key ! Only the fact that nothing works remains to fix

In the future:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_parameters

Set systemd.unit=multi-user.target and systemd will stop shy of starting the display manager.

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HommeViande

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Registered: 2018-07-22

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Re: [SOLVED] tty crash with any desktop manager

Black screen when Desktop Environment start seems to be a common nvidia driver issue for many people, have you installed Bumblebee?

Thanks a lot, it worked !
All I had left to do was to install xinit-xsession and now everything is working !

Skunky

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Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 231

Re: [SOLVED] tty crash with any desktop manager

Glad it worked!!
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