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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 497

[SOLVED] Failed to start Light Display Manager

I wanted to start plasma desktop with Lightdm and lightdm-webkit2-greeter
Clean installation.
lightdm enabled
greeter in settings changed

After reboot, I have error: Failed to start Light Display Manager

Last edited by 860lacov (2020-11-12 22:02:41)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,041

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Light Display Manager

After lightdm has failed without manually starting lightdm please post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log,  /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log and /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log see the tip box from pastebin to post from the console.

860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 497

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Light Display Manager

After lightdm has failed without manually starting lightdm please post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log,  /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log and /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log see the tip box from pastebin to post from the console.

Ech...
No Xorg.0.log

Clean install and... I thought that I don't need to install xorg-server
Woring now.

little offtopic.

I usually install xorg-srever instead full xorg. Is there something important in full package that I should install? (something for safety for example)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Light Display Manager

Re: your off-topic question:

Xorg can be installed with the xorg-server package.

Additionally, some packages from the xorg-apps group are necessary for certain configuration tasks, they are pointed out in the relevant sections.