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Zoddo

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Registered: 2021-06-11

Posts: 8

Budgie not starting after update to 10.10

Hello,

I've come across my first "arch broke itself" after running an update over 5 years of using arch.

To begin, in case this may be of importance, my system hasn't been updated since early January. It's not in my habits, but things have prevented me from doing my routine maintenance during the last month.

So, I ran my system update (classic [c]sudo pacman -Suy[/c] after first updating [c]pacman-keyring[/c] alone), which included an update of budgie-desktop (and related packages) from 10.9.4-2 to 10.10.1-2.

I fixed the few .pacnew (nothing related to budgie) and rebooted the system.

Upon reboot I enter my password on lightdm... and the password checkbox disappear, but nothing else happens. My screen get stuck on lightdm.

Checking the journalctl, 3 lines appears after typing my password:

Feb 15 17:52:02 arch lightdm[962]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb 15 17:52:02 arch lightdm[962]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Feb 15 17:52:02 arch lightdm[1640]: Can't open display

That's all. The 2 first lines already appeared in previous pre-upgrade boots, so they are very likely unrelated to my issue.

I end up with a simple "Can't open display" that I don't know what to do with.

During my researches, I've found that budgie 10.10 switched to Wayland and dropped X11 at the same time (all in a minor update ).

I have Wayland installed on my system, but I don't know if I'm missing something to make it work (I've have literally zero experience with Wayland).

The absence of any other report for the same issue, either in arch's forums, gitlab, budgie's GitHub, reddit... or any news on the arch website tell me that this update should have been transparent.

I've a pre-update btrfs snapshot that I'll probably rollback for now (first time too I will have to do this), but this won't fix the issue long term.

If someone has an idea how to diagnosis or fix the issue, I'd be very grateful.

Last edited by Zoddo (2026-02-15 17:26:21)