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PointBlank776

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Registered: 2020-09-23

Posts: 17

[Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

So I decided to switch to LightDM, and therefore typed

sudo systemctl disable gdm

Followed by

sudo systemctl enable lightdm

I wanted to install webkit2 as the greeting but both yay and pacman were returning 404s for the install so I just decided to turn LightDM off and go back to gdm by reversing the commands above. But now upon reboot I boot to tty consistently. Any ideas as to how I can fix this?
I literally have no clue what information to add or how to check for any additional info. Let me know what information would be helpful and I'll get back to you after googling the shit out of stuff

Running Gnome 3.36

Last edited by PointBlank776 (2020-12-09 01:03:07)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,043

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

Did you check the status of GDM to see if it starts and fails or does not start?  If it is failing look in the journal.
Edit:
What pacman command produced the 404?

Last edited by loqs (2020-09-25 22:51:13)

PointBlank776

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Registered: 2020-09-23

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

Did you check the status of GDM to see if it starts and fails or does not start?  If it is failing look in the journal.
Edit:
What pacman command produced the 404?

The 404 was produced both by

yay -S webkit2-greeter

And

sudo pacman -S webkit2-greeter

I'll edit the other information you requested in a tiny bit

PointBlank776

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Registered: 2020-09-23

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

Solved!
I reinstalled xorg-server and it boots fine now

StJimmy

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From: Rheinland

Registered: 2020-02-26

Posts: 72

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

Did you check the status of GDM to see if it starts and fails or does not start?  If it is failing look in the journal.
Edit:
What pacman command produced the 404?

The 404 was produced both by

yay -S webkit2-greeter

And

sudo pacman -S webkit2-greeter

I'll edit the other information you requested in a tiny bit

You're not getting 404s, pacman more likely told you it cannot find the package specified - that's because webkit2-greeter isn't the package's name. If it throws up that it cannot find the package - pacman has a search function

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Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.

PointBlank776

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Registered: 2020-09-23

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

Did you check the status of GDM to see if it starts and fails or does not start?  If it is failing look in the journal.
Edit:
What pacman command produced the 404?

The 404 was produced both by

yay -S webkit2-greeter

And

sudo pacman -S webkit2-greeter

I'll edit the other information you requested in a tiny bit

You're not getting 404s, pacman more likely told you it cannot find the package specified - that's because webkit2-greeter isn't the package's name. If it throws up that it cannot find the package - pacman has a search function

Yea I'm aware it's full name is lightdm-webkit2-greeter. Just wanted to shorten it for some reason.. But see it starts downloading, and for every mirror it finds it says it cany retrieve the file followed by "the requested URL returned error 404"

StJimmy

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From: Rheinland

Registered: 2020-02-26

Posts: 72

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

The 404 was produced both by

yay -S webkit2-greeter

And

sudo pacman -S webkit2-greeter

I'll edit the other information you requested in a tiny bit

You're not getting 404s, pacman more likely told you it cannot find the package specified - that's because webkit2-greeter isn't the package's name. If it throws up that it cannot find the package - pacman has a search function

Yea I'm aware it's full name is lightdm-webkit2-greeter. Just wanted to shorten it for some reason.. But see it starts downloading, and for every mirror it finds it says it cany retrieve the file followed by "the requested URL returned error 404"

Alright, then disregard my initial reply.

404s usually hint at outdated sync databases  - when was the last time you did a system update (i.e. pacman -Syu)?

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Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.

PointBlank776

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Registered: 2020-09-23

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

You're not getting 404s, pacman more likely told you it cannot find the package specified - that's because webkit2-greeter isn't the package's name. If it throws up that it cannot find the package - pacman has a search function

Yea I'm aware it's full name is lightdm-webkit2-greeter. Just wanted to shorten it for some reason.. But see it starts downloading, and for every mirror it finds it says it cany retrieve the file followed by "the requested URL returned error 404"

Alright, then disregard my initial reply.

404s usually hint at outdated sync databases  - when was the last time you did a system update (i.e. pacman -Syu)?

I think 2 weeks ago... I'll retry after updating. Thanks

Last edited by PointBlank776 (2020-09-26 14:24:43)

StJimmy

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From: Rheinland

Registered: 2020-02-26

Posts: 72

Re: [Solved] GDM not launching (I think)

I think 2 weeks ago... I'll retry after updating. Thanks

That might explain a thing or two. I don't know exactly if the package version / release changed in those two weeks (considering I don't use the WebKit greeter), but on a rolling distro, it's important to keep up with updates. Two weeks isn't crass in terms of 'lag', but some small things (like this) may yet happen

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Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.