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pokemaster69

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Registered: 2020-03-11

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Display manager unresponsive on startup

When i boot up my system, the boot magager (lightDM) is unresponsive for about 10-15 seconds, i tried entropy and it didnt help, i also tried using gdm which had the same problem.
anyone knows what is going on?

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

"I tried entropy and it didn't help" -- what exactly did you do to "try entropy"?

pokemaster69

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

"you may have to download more entropy. Install and enable haveged"
This is what the arch wiki says about lightDM being unresponsive, so I tried this but that didn't help

seth

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

…so I tried this…

Let's see how successful you were:

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

Also please elaborate on "unresponsive" - do you see a mouse cursor and can you move it around?
Does the interface respond to input events (changing color on hover etc.)?

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pokemaster69

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

the command gives this output:

UNIT FILE                                  STATE   VENDOR PRESET
autovt@.service                            enabled disabled     
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service enabled disabled     
display-manager.service                    enabled disabled     
getty@.service                             enabled enabled      
haveged.service                            enabled disabled     
lightdm.service                            enabled disabled     
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service          enabled disabled     
NetworkManager-wait-online.service         enabled disabled     
NetworkManager.service                     enabled disabled     
remote-fs.target                           enabled enabled 

With unresponsive i mean, the cursor appears and then everything freezes for 10-15 seconds, ctrl+alt+f2 does not work, can' t move anything and doesnt respond to any input. i can' t move the mouse either.

seth

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

Please post a complete system journal and the Xorg log.
Do you run GDM on wayland? (lightdm is X11, so the display server might be insignificant)

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pokemaster69

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

I use lightDM on Xorg, but gdm on Xorg didn' t work either,
Xorg log: https://pastebin.com/6GRLhe79
Journal from current boot: https://pastebin.com/k8Zi6Ak1

Last edited by pokemaster69 (2020-03-11 14:39:44)

seth

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

The nouveau kernel module crashes over and over again, try the nvidia driver: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/

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pokemaster69

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Re: Display manager unresponsive on startup

Thanks that fixed it!!
didn' t think this would be a problem because i configured it to use the intel integrated graphics only.