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Since updating last week I can no longer start GDM.
I can switch to a terminal and login. This works briefly, before the system will lock up for a few minutes and then show a non functional GDM login screen. At this point I can switch back to the terminal and use it normally.
I've seen related commentary regarding accountservice. Indeed this has not started: http://ix.io/1vwD
I'm running everything latest including accountsservice 0.6.54+2
Downgrading accounts service to 0.6.50 from my cache doesn't help.
Hardware is Ryzen 5 2400G, running on IGP.
Any advice? Debugging this is quite a long way past my comfort zone.
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My advice would be to not use a DM to login & startx, use xorg-xinit
and a configured ~/.xinitrc. IMHO DM's are often troublesome.
Should you decide to take my advice remember to disable the gdm service.
good luck
Edit: im assuming you are not using wayland my bad
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
will tell, check your gdm config file for related wayland configuration.
you could also try editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment "WaylandEnable=false"
If all else fails then provide us with the output of
journalctl -b
using a sane pastebin client
Last edited by cirrus (2018-12-08 21:39:00)
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Thanks for your help cirrus.
Started up again today and this time my boot sequence prompted me to run `systemctl status polkit.service`. I was almost there, just needed one more hop from accountsservice.
Anyway, the error there mentioned libmozjs-52. Turns out I misinterpreted the instructions on archlinux.org and deleted `libmozjs-52.so.0` after upgrade :-/ Now reinstalled from cache and working fine.
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