Arch Linux

Dmcinkeit

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Registered: 2018-04-11

Posts: 8

How to start up without enabled units

So I just finished installing Arch and everything seemed to be working. I decided to get a display manager and I picked lightdm. I downloaded and enabled it and rebooted. It went into lightdm, however when I try to login it tells me it was unable to start a session. I have some pretty good ideas how to fix this, but I'm stuck on the login screen. Is there someway to start up arch without it starting my enabled units.

I'm sure I could use the drive I used to download Arch, but I don't have it anymore and I'd need to burn a new one.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,531

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Re: How to start up without enabled units

Switch to another tty: Ctrl-Alt-F2

Or just specify multi-user.target on the kernel command line from your bootloader.

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damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 462

Re: How to start up without enabled units

check these
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … and%20Line and these https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … -line.html