Re: elogind fails to start
Reply #15 –
Thank you for explaining how to disable the lightdm service from chrooting. This seems like it could be a good option in the situation I will need to edit some configuration files without a desktop environment.
In regards to my installation process, it has been about four or five months since I converted to Artix, and on my desktop in particular, I had no abnormalities, I simply installed using the calamares installer for xfce for both my laptop and desktop.
Only my laptop had issues when installing, which I documented here (although it appears the thread has been deleted). No worries, I also documented the process should it need to be repeated in a .txt file:
Use the live installation iso usb stick to boot into the live environment.
Mount the nvme01p2 (your installed home partition) to /mnt (must be root)
su
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
Chroot into it:
artix-chroot /mnt
Then we need to make some adjustments
nano /etc/default/grub
Change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to "nvme_load=YES"
And update it:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then:
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
Change the Modules from an empty string to "vmd"
And also the line that has autodetect and block in it. Make sure that block is listed before autodetect in the line up.
And update it:
mkinitcpio -P
And that's it, reboot, remove your installation media, and you're good.
A good thing to note is that these issues with lightdm did not start until a few weeks after I had decided to install multiple kernels on both my laptop and desktop. I made sure to install the proper kernels, headers, and also nvidia-dkms. I was able to install zen and regular linux kernels successfully on my desktop, and linux and linux-lts on my laptop (I saw significant performance issues with zen on my laptop).
At first I suspected this might be a nvidia related issue, as originally when I attempted to do this I was unaware of the existence of the nvidia-dkms package, and tried to install multiple kernels without it. This resulted in a similar result, in which I would be presented with a black screen and a single cursor shortly after the GRUB menu displayed and the usual series of boot related logs/notifications popped up. Luckily, here on the forums, somebody brought my attention to the nvidia-dkms package, and after installing that along with reinstalling the kernels/headers, everything seemed to work just fine...for a couple weeks until this issue became a regular occurrence.
As an aside, about two weeks ago, I converted over from xfce to i3, but I don't believe that is related, as this issue started before that.
Thank you for the detailed reply.
Yes, connmand starts and automatically connects to my wifi network. More out of curiosity than even a desire to resolve this issue, may I politely ask how this could possibly be related? Please don't take offense at this statement, this question is asked with the utmost sincerity and respect.