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[SOLVED] Cannot start lightdm on boot after switching to runit

Hi,

I recently installed Artix with OpenRC, but decided to migrate to runit without reinstalling. I managed to remove all the OpenRC packages, and install the runit equivalents, and everything is working perfectly except that I cannot get lightdm to run on boot. The first few times I tried to follow the instructions in the wiki, the directory /run/runit seemed to be absent, but then it magically appeared. (The first few times, I booted from my Artix USB stick and chrooted into my installation; the last time, I booted into the virtual terminals on my permanent Artix installation itself. Maybe that’s what made the difference? Either way, lightdm still won’t start.)

Also, lxde also fails to start, if I try to run startlxde. Startx works, but brings up twm (I think).

Both lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter are installed.

Can’t think of any other relevant information but happy to provide it if asked.

Thank you in advance.

Jeff

Re: Cannot start lightdm on boot after switching to runit

Reply #1 –
Do you have lightdm-runit installed?

Re: Cannot start lightdm on boot after switching to runit

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Jeffrollin – on
Also, lxde also fails to start, if I try to run startlxde. Startx works, but brings up twm (I think).
You could just do:
echo 'startlxde' > .xinitrc
or edit the .xinitrc if your xinitrc file has custom things in it you'd like to keep

Re: Cannot start lightdm on boot after switching to runit

Reply #4 –
You should be able to just make the symlink from the /etc directory to the /run directory to enable it on bootup.

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ln -s /etc/runit/sv/lightdm /run/runit/service

If that doesn't work, does it start if you manually start the service? ("sv up lightdm")
 

Re: Cannot start lightdm on boot after switching to runit

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Dudemanguy – on
You should be able to just make the symlink from the /etc directory to the /run directory to enable it on bootup.

Code: [Select]
ln -s /etc/runit/sv/lightdm /run/runit/service


That did it! Thanks. Whilst I don’t know why it didn’t start automatically when installed, and in fairness perhaps it was working as designed, I had misinterpreted the “.../service” as a variable to be replaced with “.../lightdm”, and also perhaps wasn’t aware that the line above would place a symlink *in* the directory rather than replacing the directory with a symlink.

Thanks very much.