Arch Linux

jmt

Member

Registered: 2019-06-24

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] GDM XOrg hangs after reboot

So have installed GDM and cinnamon and have been running that successfully for a few months. I am using the XOrg backend too.

I just upgraded arch and rebooted but when I rebooted the screen just shows a blank screen with a non blinking cursor…

The GDM service is active when running systemctl status gem

I tried restarting the service but the computer just hangs and I have to restart.

I uninstalled GDM and reinstalled and was able to boot to the GDM graphical l login screen but when I tried logging in it just kept coming back to the login screen…

Then I remembered that I needed to tell GDM to use xorg so I set WaylandEnabled to false in the custom conf …

One I did that I am back in the blank screen so I guess there is an issue with Xorg?

Also something to note is that I can’t go into TTY immediately on the blank screen… I have to wait a minute for the ctrl alt f4 to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I’m on my phone but I’ll do my best to provide whatever data you need

Last edited by jmt (2024-09-10 02:46:24)

jmt

Member

Registered: 2019-06-24

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] GDM XOrg hangs after reboot

So the issue was a bad xorg config file. I don't really know why this file made Xorg brick, but here is the contents:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier "eDP-1"
	Modeline "1920x1280_60"  235.690  1920 2304 2336 2536  1280 1507 1513 1549  +HSync +Vsyn
	Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1280_60"
EndSection

The modeline is correct b/c I use that directly in xrandr, but what is wrong I think is the eDP-1 should be eDP instead.