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#27 lightdm issue
**I removed gdm ( because it was pulling in extra gnome packages along ) and installed and enabled lightdm . On reboot if I don`t keep pressing esc button continuosuly to boot in verbose mode lightdm never shows up and I am left with a blank screen and I force verbose mode only then lightdm shows up through which I can login to my XFCE desktop.
What might be causing this?****
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LightDM needs some gnome packages too. Mainly gnome-keyring and accountsservice.
It would be helpfull to have an systemd journal ouput from a blank screen boot.
Use journalctl --boot=-1 > log.txt
This gives you the output of the syslog before the current session.
I am attaching the boot log file
gnome-keyring and accountsservice packages are installed
I will have a closer look when i'am back on the devstation.
On the first fast lookthrough on my phone i recognized that you uninstalled libaccounts-glib.
LightDM needs that to talk to accountsservice and find users which can login.
Without that package lighdm can hang on normalboot.
With verbose boot it just takes over the con session.
Oh so my house sweeping took away a vital package as well , I will re
install that package later tonight when I get home from work and report
back to you.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019, 11:25 PM Melanie Genz melaniefox@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
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Just re installed libaccounts-glib package ,, rebooted but still getting
black screen on lightdm
Guess something more is missing as well
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 1:35 PM saleem drmarwat@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
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The logs don't give a hint or error why lightdm isn't working.
You could try the following:
1) use sddm as display manager (pulls in kf5 packages) and tell me if that works
2) a clean install with the latest xfce iso.
Sddm installed and working fine , didn't pull in many kde packages , need
to find some good theme for sddm now
Removed lightdm package , infact never liked lightdm because it has always
issues with X
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 5:45 PM Melanie Genz melaniefox@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
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Yeah, lightdm and gdm can be painful.
The problem with the nice themes for sddm is that they often need kde plasma components.
Mainly the package plasma-workspace.
I am going to give a try to this theme but I need to change background picture to some kind of witch thing
https://github.com/zolech/railgun-sddm-theme