After installing the plasma, plasma-wayland-session, and kde-applications packages, it caused this problem where booting wouldn't make it past the initialization process. Instead of displaying LightDM, it just shows a blank screen.
I was able to chroot into the system through a live usb and remove all KDE-related packages, but it hasn't fixed it.
I'm using dinit and I previously used MATE.
Hello,
Have you tried with sddm?
pacman -Si sddm
Dépôt : world
Nom : sddm
Version : 0.20.0-2
Description : QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/sddm/sddm
sudo pacman -S sddm-dinit
Add sddm to your init.
Remove lightdm
Thanks. But how do you enable a process in dinit? I've been trying to read to read instructions, but they've been kinda confusing me.
sudo dinitctl start <- starts a service one time
sudo dinitctl enable <- causes a service to start at boot
You can see available service files and their names in /etc/dinit.d/
So you'd want to do something like:
sudo dinitctl disable lightdm
sudo dinitctl enable sddm
Worked, but I'm getting no GUI. The dm isn't loading (and there's no de), although the OS still started correctly.
is sddm started ?
Have you installed all the necessary packages for your desktop environment ?
Yeah, I even reinstalled MATE. And sddm is already started and enabled.
Still no dm. I'll see if I can start MATE manually.
Edit: nope; can't figure the latter out
You may get more information if you try having both lightdm and sddm disabled as services and then, as root, run either manually (or both one at a time).
sddm
lightdm -d
I think I already tried the sddm one, so I went with trying the lightdm option
It's giving me an error like this:
Seat seat0: Failed to find session configuration lightdm-gtk-greeter
Seat seat0: Failed to create greeter session
Failed to start seat: seat0
Wait.
I found out that all I needed to get lightdm started was by installing the gtk greeter xP
Unfortunately, though, running it returns me to my first problem: no gui, just a blank screen with a blinking line.
So before you installed "plasma, plasma-wayland-session, and kde-applications packages" you did have a working desktop ?
Was it X or Wayland ? What desktop / window manager did you use ?
Edit : You say "I found out that all I needed to get lightdm started was by installing the gtk greeter xP "
So does a graphical lightdm appear ? And then you get the "blank screen with a blinking line" after entering your user details.
Or do you only get the blank screen after running lightdm ?
Edit2: Sorry you said Mate
Assuming you use X then I'd guess that is running as normal you'd get dumped back to the terminal when it exits if the display manager is not running as a service.
If you are getting a GUI lightdm then make sure the 'Session' is set to Mate.
lightdm should have a log. Post that.
Xorg has a log, post that /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Yeah, I used MATE, and it worked just fine.
The latter, I think. While I can technically
start lightdm (as in, running the "lightdm -d" command, and letting it execute), attempting to run it is what's giving me the blank screen.
You may have missed my last edit
I think X should by OK as normally (without a display manager like lightdm) you'd end up back at the terminal if it wasn't.
You can start X (and Mate) without a display manager
install xorg-xinit
run
startx /usr/bin/mate-session
You may find find it easier to work out whats been going on from a GUI?
Hopefully that will work ?