[SOLVD] Major issues after removing Nvidia-Utils and installing Mesa

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 20:25:31

Hey everyone. Having major issues after switching from a nvidia 2080ti over to an amd 6800xt my dbus address isn't set causing pulse audio and several other functions to work improperly and mt xinit file in x11 is also not working. This happened after I Uninstalled my nvidia-utils i believe i allowed the removed some packages it shouldn't.

My dbus address is not set and if i ask what the address is, it gives me a blank line in return. I did "export $(dbus-launch" to see if pulseaudio would do anything in return and it does work if I launch it via cli but itll only give me a dummy output.
here is the pastebin of pulseaudio -vvv after closing pulse: https://ghostbin.co/paste/m5dfe

I also noticed that my xinit file is wiped and when I enabled lightdm using systemctl enable nothing changed on reboot nor is my trash folder is working.

I did to sudo pacman -Rcns nvidia-utils to remove the drivers and it most likely removed something it shouldn't have. I also removed my xorg.conf files as recommended on other forums.

Any help is greatly appreciated and I can move to a messaging app for closer support if needed.

Last edited by lorddickfist (2020-12-22 20:58:55)

V1del · 2020-12-21 20:37:56

Nothing of what you are saying should have any logical connection to nvidia-utils.

But yes the -c option will pick a load of other things that you usually want to keep. check your pacman log, reinstall things that aren't nvidia-utils that got removed. That said I don't see anything that would cause this current issue, post your xinitrc and a xorg log and a

sudo journalctl -b

after logging on. What are you trying to use to login/start your session right now?

Last edited by V1del (2020-12-21 20:39:34)

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 20:49:38

V1del wrote:

Nothing of what you are saying should have any logical connection to nvidia-utils, at all.
But yes the -c option will pick a load of other things that you usually want to keep. check your pacman log, reinstall things that aren't nvidia-utils that got removed. That said I don't see anything that would cause this current issue, post your xinitrc and a xorg log.

I agree it shouldn't be connected at all. Here is my xorg log xinit is blank again... atleast from when I try to open it in atom but if i use wine's notepad I get this

I will check pacman log right now.

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 20:51:33

V1del wrote:

Nothing of what you are saying should have any logical connection to nvidia-utils.
But yes the -c option will pick a load of other things that you usually want to keep. check your pacman log, reinstall things that aren't nvidia-utils that got removed. That said I don't see anything that would cause this current issue, post your xinitrc and a xorg log and a
sudo journalctl -b
after logging on. What are you trying to use to login/start your session right now?

I am using "sudo lightdm start" then itll launch openbox and polybar for me. Journal

V1del · 2020-12-21 20:55:19

journal is incomplete and truncated, redirect into a file and upload the entire file.

You should use systemd to start the display manager so that it handles the proper session logic, use

systemctl start lightdm #... or enable to enable it for the next boot

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 21:00:32

V1del wrote:

journal is incomplete and truncated, redirect into a file and upload the entire file.
You should use systemd to start the display manager so that it handles the proper session logic, use
systemctl start lightdm #... or enable to enable it for the next boot

Yeah I already tried enabling and it rebooting didn't take. I will use systemctl to start now instead though. For my journal you want var/log/jorunal/(numbers)/system.journal correct?

V1del · 2020-12-21 21:03:44

No run the command I've posted above after making a login attempt and post the output of that (... but the entire thing rather than a terminal size truncated snippet).

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lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 21:14:08

V1del wrote:

No run the command I've posted above after making a login attempt and post the output of that (... but the entire thing rather than a terminal size truncated snippet).

Okay the entire script I believe I did this correctly.

also reinstalling the packages fixed my pulseaudio and now for dbus "zsh: no such file or directory: unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"

Last edited by lorddickfist (2020-12-21 21:32:19)

loqs · 2020-12-21 21:32:58

Please post the contents of the following after lightdm fails at boot without restarting the service: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log, /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
Also have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output

V1del · 2020-12-21 21:33:58

According to that output your session as well as DBUS starts properly now. Wat exactly are you trying to do in your zsh scripts?

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 21:45:00

V1del wrote:

According to that output your session as well as DBUS starts properly now. Wat exactly are you trying to do in your zsh scripts?

My bad that was me trying to locate the address with $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
Also after removing the # infront of the check graphical in/etc/lightdm/lightdm conf I cant start lightdm as it says start requested repeated too quickly and if I stop it still fails

Edit: added # back and I was able to start it do i ahve to worry about the " no such file or directory: unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus" if everything appears fine except xinit

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lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 21:53:09

loqs wrote:

Please post the contents of the following after lightdm fails at boot without restarting the service: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log, /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
Also have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output

I don't follow how I am supposed to output the logs if I am not starting the service? Also enabling that link you suggested didn't help it made it so I can't even manually start it. Any suggestions how im getting the output? am I piping it with ">" then directory?

loqs · 2020-12-21 22:08:26

See the tip box from pastebin to post the output from the console.

lorddickfist · 2020-12-21 22:13:33

loqs wrote:

See the tip box from pastebin to post the output from the console.

EDIT: I cannot read apparently give me a moment.

EDIT 2: Have to go to work. I will try this when I get home.

Last edited by lorddickfist (2020-12-21 22:18:13)

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 01:45:12

loqs wrote:

See the tip box from pastebin to post the output from the console.

I cant figure out how to get the curl command working but if I leave that option on in lightdm.conf for the loginid check graphical it says that it cannot start due to the key file (conf) not starting with a group

edit: xorg.0.log
edit: lightdmlog
edit: seater

Last edited by lorddickfist (2020-12-22 01:59:16)

loqs · 2020-12-22 04:18:10

Please post lightdm.conf as well.

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 05:53:17

loqs wrote:

Please post lightdm.conf as well.

For sure, that should've been obvious. Here.
This is the one in /etc/lightdm

loqs · 2020-12-22 06:15:00

Comment out the following

greeter-session = lightdm-gtk-greeter

the default is already lightdm-gtk-greeter. If you want to change the greeter you would modify

#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome

Uncommenting the following and changing it to true breaks starting lightdm after boot?

#logind-check-graphical=false

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 06:19:04

loqs wrote:

Comment out the following
greeter-session = lightdm-gtk-greeter
the default is already lightdm-gtk-greeter. If you want to change the greeter you would modify
#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome
Uncommenting the following and changing it to true breaks starting lightdm after boot?
#logind-check-graphical=false

Ill do that right now. I already changed it to true like way before this issue just removed the # and then it breaks Ill reboot after this cs:go match.

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 06:32:00

loqs wrote:

Comment out the following
greeter-session = lightdm-gtk-greeter
the default is already lightdm-gtk-greeter. If you want to change the greeter you would modify
#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome
Uncommenting the following and changing it to true breaks starting lightdm after boot?
#logind-check-graphical=false

Rebooted no change. BUT I did get a different error when I checked the status of lightdm.service attaching picture

seth · 2020-12-22 08:51:25

Please post the updated lightdm config and log and timestamp for the latter (because the last one looks like a succesful run)

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 09:11:08

seth wrote:

Please post the updated lightdm config and log and timestamp for the latter (because the last one looks like a succesful run)

What do you mean by timestamp but here's the current config

seth · 2020-12-22 09:22:37

stat or ls -l (the creation and modification time to ensure yo're not posting a lightdm log from last week)

lorddickfist · 2020-12-22 09:33:52

seth wrote:

stat or ls -l (the creation and modification time to ensure yo're not posting a lightdm log from last week)

Lightdm log for timestamp -rw------- 1 ldf users 2387 Dec 21 11:22
File: lightdm.log
Size: 2387 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 2411031 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ ldf) Gid: ( 985/ users)
Access: 2020-12-22 02:32:44.892500414 -0700
Modify: 2020-12-21 11:22:32.345863356 -0700
Change: 2020-12-21 11:22:32.345863356 -0700
Birth: 2020-12-21 11:22:32.332530639 -0700
lightdm.log I'll repost here.
It says plymouth not found but I definitely have it installed I even reinstalled it.
EDIT: sudo pacman -Qs "plymouth" shows I have plymouth 0.9.5.6

Last edited by lorddickfist (2020-12-22 09:36:35)

seth · 2020-12-22 09:39:23

Old log by timestamp and

[+0.00s] DEBUG: [LightDM] contains unknown option greeter-session

(which is no longer in the last posted config)

Also why does the log belong to your user?
How do you start lightdm? What's the location of the log file?

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