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  • bootup suddently "crashes" on Lightdm load

    From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 19:23:17
    I have and Mga9 laptop with Lightdm as the manager, and Pulse as the X
    windows manager.
    Suddenly the loading of the DM started crashing. It would boot to the
    point where the DM was supposed to load, I would see the background
    image for about 2 sec, then it would disappear, and final screen of the
    boot process would show for about 4 sec, then the DM background again,
    then the final screen again-- this would repeat 2-5 times, at which time
    almost nothing would work. However I discovered that alt-ctrl-F4 would
    give me a terminal. Logging in as user and trying startx would not work.
    (blank screen).
    I finally loogged in on F4 terminal and ran drakdm, and told it to run
    sddm, instead of lightdm, and now it seems to be working. (I chose
    lightdm because sddm would not work when I installed Mga9).

    While things are working now, I no longer trust the system. What could
    have gone wrong, and how do I prevent it from happening again?

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.0 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From William Unruh@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 19:25:43
    On 2024-10-09, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
    I have and Mga9 laptop with Lightdm as the manager, and Pulse as the X windows manager.
    Suddenly the loading of the DM started crashing. It would boot to the
    point where the DM was supposed to load, I would see the background
    image for about 2 sec, then it would disappear, and final screen of the
    boot process would show for about 4 sec, then the DM background again,
    then the final screen again-- this would repeat 2-5 times, at which time almost nothing would work. However I discovered that alt-ctrl-F4 would
    give me a terminal. Logging in as user and trying startx would not work. (blank screen).
    I finally loogged in on F4 terminal and ran drakdm, and told it to run
    sddm, instead of lightdm, and now it seems to be working. (I chose
    lightdm because sddm would not work when I installed Mga9).

    While things are working now, I no longer trust the system. What could
    have gone wrong, and how do I prevent it from happening again?

    Oh, forgot to say, this is on a Dell XPS13 9310 touchscreen computer.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.0 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)