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[SOLVED] Lightdm Doesn't work

So I don't remember what I did to get into this place but when I turn on my pc it stays on tty1 instead of going to tty7 after it loads everything up like normal. This I'm not sure about but I can't sign into my user account but I could also be mistyping my password. I also can't sign in my root some times. I going to retry typing my password again on both so I'll be back to report it. my pc is also encrypted.


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did you change your DM per chance to lightdm from, say, sddm or another?   Seems to be be reminiscent of the same message when i did that quite a while back.  If not, might be a good idea to keep an idea on the other post by whathappened, as that's lightdm related as well. (I also use lightdm, but am free from issue btw)

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Quote from: gavincc – on
did you change your DM per chance to lightdm from, say, sddm or another?   Seems to be be reminiscent of the same message when i did that quite a while back.  If not, might be a good idea to keep an idea on the other post by whathappened, as that's lightdm related as well. (I also use lightdm, but am free from issue btw)
No I did not. I just right now reinstalled artix openrc xfce on my pc again and after install mpv neovim git wget base-devel yay docker docker-compose docker-openrc ufw ufw-openrc qbittorent and moving some folders from my home dir like .local .config. I rebooted my pc and it did the samething. Were can I find my startup log file? I think something failed so I want to look into but it goes to fast when I boot up.
I going to test somethings later today.

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moving .config and .local.   Reason?

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Why not SDDM ?
i3-3210 / 10GB / VGA Intel HD 2500 / SSD 240GB / Arch Linux / Kernel 6.11 / Openbox / Ungoogled-Chromium

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Quote from: gavincc – on
moving .config and .local.   Reason?
I think he meant restoring his backup.

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Why not SDDM ?

~30 ish less MB of memory usage and loading a bit quicker on legacy machines, i use it on my t400 for this reason, sddm is fully graphical so imo reserved for a bit newer stuff.

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Quote from: Hitman – on
Quote from: gavincc – on
moving .config and .local.   Reason?
I think he meant restoring his backup.


well, like to think so, but as this was a new install and the line says "moving some folders from my home dir like .local .config" rather than "to" or "restoring to".    Hopefully it's just an oversight!

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Maybe a stupid question but did you intall lightdm-gtk-greeter (or another greeter)?

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its working now I did a pacman -Syu and it updated
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grub-2:2.06.r499 nvidia-530.41.03-4 nvidia-utils-530.41.03-1 xfce4-timer-plugin-1.7.2-1

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I think he meant restoring his backup.

well, like to think so, but as this was a new install and the line says "moving some folders from my home dir like .local .config" rather than "to" or "restoring to".    Hopefully it's just an oversight!

Yes I moved my old .config and .local folder to my new home folder but with reinstalled artix openrc xfce4.