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indignation

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Registered: 2020-11-30

Posts: 9

GNOME and GDM won't start

I've been a silent user of arch for a couple months now and I've been using LightDM (or ly on lower-end computers) + bspwm without any problems. I also used to have KDE Plasma laying around in case I desired a full DE experience. However, after recent changes with Qt binary distribution (https://ev.kde.org/2020/04/06/changes-i … oundation/), I have decided to switch to GNOME instead (I was already leaning towards trying it).
So, I booted into bspwm, removed everything qt and plasma-related (plasma-meta, qt-keychain...) and installed the gnome and gnome-extra groups (as well as gdm). However, rebooting into GDM didn't work out well and I was faced with the ominous fail-whale ("Oh No! Something has gone wrong."). After getting back into bspwm I tried to manually boot GNOME (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Manually , in X11 mode obviously) from my terminal emulator, but this didn't work either (same screen, just with a log out button). I have attached an excerpt of the journalctl logs here: https://bin.snopyta.org/?2aaf116152c4c9 … c8GPGoUSMv .
The first error comes from systemd-login: "Failed to probe partition scheme of "/dev/block/254:1": Input/output error" - the mentioned block device is a symlink to /dev/dm-1, which appears to be my boot partition (mounted at /boot). Even though I do UEFI boot (with an efi partition) I have a seperate boot partition from my main partition so I can use LUKS2 on my main partition and LUKS1 during boot (limitation of grub). It works fine, so I'm not sure why this error arises.
Here's another interesting pick from gnome-shell: "Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad' does not contain a key named 'tap-button-map'" (Is this the fatal issue here?). How should I go about fixing this?

I'd appreciate some advice on what to do now, thanks!