Latest Update

dramatis.persona · 2022-10-17 12:42:46

After the latest update to Arch Linux using pacman -Syu I rebooted and can no longer login to my machine.

It brings up the login screen but when I type in the password, the Enter key no longer works and so I am stuck at the login screen.

V1del · 2022-10-17 12:59:03

"Latest update" means something different for anyone and is in general an absolutely useless metric. What exactly was updated? Can you switch to a VT with Ctrl+Alt+F2-F12 ?

From general context I'm assuming you are using lightdm with a webkit2 theme, they got broken by a webkit2gtk update, which you can either try to roll that back a version (from 2.38.0 to 2.37.0 which would constitute a partial upgrade and is not reccommended) , or instead of using the unmaintained webkit2 greeter for lightdm, switch to the default gtk greeter and an appropriate theme.

dramatis.persona · 2022-10-17 19:49:46

V1del wrote:

"Latest update" means something different for anyone and is in general an absolutely useless metric. What exactly was updated? Can you switch to a VT with Ctrl+Alt+F2-F12 ?
From general context I'm assuming you are using lightdm with a webkit2 theme, they got broken by a webkit2gtk update, which you can either try to roll that back a version (from 2.38.0 to 2.37.0 which would constitute a partial upgrade and is not reccommended) , or instead of using the unmaintained webkit2 greeter for lightdm, switch to the default gtk greeter and an appropriate theme.

Well, for me as n00b, latest update means running pacman -Syu.

I don't really look to see what is specifically updated. I usually just run the command every few weeks or less depending upon how much I use the machine, and let it run to the end and finish hopefully successfully (which the vast majority of the time it does).

I haven't really added anything in a long time, but I use Cinnamon as the windows/desktop manager.

I can switch to a VT, which I guess I will just do for updates until whatever issue is resolved.

Slithery · 2022-10-17 19:56:40

dramatis.persona wrote:

Well, for me as n00b, latest update means running pacman -Syu.
I don't really look to see what is specifically updated.

We don't expect you to remember what the output of pacman was, you can just post the contents of /var/log/pacman.

You should also know which which lightdm greeter you are using and how to change it as this is something you will have had to manually set up when you first installed Arch.

dramatis.persona · 2022-10-18 13:23:18

Slithery wrote:

dramatis.persona wrote:
Well, for me as n00b, latest update means running pacman -Syu.
I don't really look to see what is specifically updated.
We don't expect you to remember what the output of pacman was, you can just post the contents of /var/log/pacman.
You should also know which which lightdm greeter you are using and how to change it as this is something you will have had to manually set up when you first installed Arch.

I don't know how to post the contents of pacman.log from a terminal without a GUI. I set up Arch over two years ago on a secondary machine to play around with. From then I haven't really changed it at all, except for a few application installs.

Nonetheless, I checked the lightdm.conf file and I must have set it to webkit2 greeter way back then because that config line is uncommented with the value set, and from what V1del suggested, it appears that the lightdm-webkit2-greeter is the problem.

I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter and configured that to be run in the lightdm conf file and I was able to hit the enter key and successfully login.

Is there a way to know when the issue with webkit2 will be fixed?

Last edited by dramatis.persona (2022-10-18 13:25:16)

seth · 2022-10-18 13:38:49

I don't know how to post the contents of pacman.log from a terminal without a GUI.

1st link below.

Is there a way to know when the issue with webkit2 will be fixed?

https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter … is%3Aissue
There isn't even a bug reported and the last code update as 4 years ago: https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter
=> most likely "never"

Slithery · 2022-10-18 16:35:57

dramatis.persona wrote:

I don't know how to post the contents of pacman.log from a terminal without a GUI.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

progandy · 2022-10-18 17:48:53

seth wrote:

Is there a way to know when the issue with webkit2 will be fixed?
https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter … is%3Aissue
There isn't even a bug reported and the last code update as 4 years ago: https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter
=> most likely "never"

There is a replacement being developed using electron if you need an html greeter: https://github.com/JezerM/nody-greeter, the same person also has an updated fork of web-greeter and maintains it in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/web-greeter

Last edited by progandy (2022-10-18 17:51:40)

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