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pelegs

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Registered: 2020-10-18

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[SOLVED] Issue with GDM not loading (going directly to tty)

I recently replaced pulseaudio with pipewire, and decided to go back to pulseaudio.
Since then, I rebooted the system and instead of reaching GDM, I get a tty prompt.
Running

journalctl -b -p 3

gives me the following output:

-- Journal begins at Sun 2021-11-14 13:10:27 CET, ends at Sun 2021-11-14 18:42:24 CET. --

Nov 14 18:41:40 machine_name kernel: DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: No firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR [0x000000007b800000-0x000000007fffffff], contact BIOS vendor for fixes
Nov 14 18:41:40 machine_name kernel: x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
Nov 14 18:41:41 machine_name kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie for chip BCM4350/8
Nov 14 18:41:41 machine_name kernel: usb 1-2.2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
Nov 14 18:41:41 machine_name kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie for chip BCM4350/8
Nov 14 18:41:41 machine_name kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
Nov 14 18:41:41 machine_name kernel: brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4350/8 wl0: Oct 22 2015 06:16:26 version 7.35.180.119 (r594535) FWID 01-e791c176
Nov 14 18:41:42 machine_name kernel: snd_hda_codec_hdmi hdaudioC0D2: Monitor plugged-in, Failed to power up codec ret=[-13]
Nov 14 18:41:42 machine_name kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
Nov 14 18:41:42 machine_name kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM4350C5-0a5c-6412.hcd'
Nov 14 18:41:42 machine_name kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-0a5c-6412.hcd'
Nov 14 18:41:56 machine_name ntpd[311]: bind(27) AF_INET6 fe80::4c84:cc51:2f79:edc5%2#123 flags 0x11 failed: Cannot assign requested address
Nov 14 18:41:56 machine_name ntpd[311]: unable to create socket on wlp58s0 (8) for fe80::4c84:cc51:2f79:edc5%2#123

I would appreciate any help with this matter.

Last edited by pelegs (2021-11-14 20:23:12)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with GDM not loading (going directly to tty)

I recently replaced pulseaudio with pipewire

How did you do that, exactly? Please post the verbatim command(s).

instead of reaching GDM, I get a tty prompt

What is the output of

systemctl get-default
systemctl status gdm --no-p -l

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pelegs

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with GDM not loading (going directly to tty)

I simply used pacman to install pipewire and pipewire-pulse. It said this was in conflict with pulseaudio and asked if I wanted to replace pulseaudio, to which I answered yes.
I then removed pipewire completely using pacman, and re-installed pulseaudio.

Outputs:

$ systemctl get-default
graphical.target

$ systemctl status gdm --no-p -l
Unit gdm.service could not be found.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with GDM not loading (going directly to tty)

I then removed pipewire completely using pacman, and re-installed pulseaudio.

gdm indirectly depends on pipewire so when you removed pipewire did you notice gdm in the list of packages to be removed?
gdm->gnome-shell->gst-plugin-pipewire->libpipewire-0.3.so=0-64 (pipewire)
You can confirm it was removed in /var/log/pacman.log.

Last edited by loqs (2021-11-14 19:31:14)

pelegs

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue with GDM not loading (going directly to tty)

Yeap, re-installing gdm solved it.
Thanks!