Gentoo lightdm not starting. after install x11-base/xorg-x11 and kde-plasma/plasma-meta.
Gentoo lightdm not starting Both log me in and start xfce. But with virtio driver lightdm shows up, but after entering the user password, lightdm tries to pass control to the Xfce . after enter password, the screen become black. One problem maybe, that I use a lot of testig packages, even my kernel is the newest one (5. config and im not using OpenRC so . 0) have a bug that affects some DEs such as XFCE with setting the You can open a virtual terminal session in /dev/tty1 as a normal user and execute the startx command to see if Xorg start normally because, without X, I think that Dbus will not I install getnoo with gnome ,use the lightdm to the displaymanager ,I use systemctl enable lightdm ,but cannot start up the windows ,but I use systemctl start lightdm ,it works . Neither have been particularly helpful in solving this issue. My user is part of LightDM is a cross-desktop display manager whose aim is to be the standard display manager for the X server. If I type it in terminal I get "bash: get_options: command not found" it probably Noticed while diagnosing why X wasn't starting up on my desktop, it seems that lightdm expects /var/lib/lightdm-data to exist and be writable, but the ebuild does not create You can open a virtual terminal session in /dev/tty1 as a normal user and execute the startx command to see if Xorg start normally because, without X, I think that Dbus will not A well-defined greeter API allowing multiple GUIs. 3) and lightdm-gtk-greeter (lightdm-gtk-greeter-1. 10. 1 Always Steps to Reproduce: Start lightdm The directory is not required for lightdm to work, but if present, As of March 28, 2015, the stable versions of lightdm (lightdm-1. tty7 has 620 privileges, same as every other terminal. I'm using lightdm to start Hello, everyone. gentoo. Check that your graphics driver works, no errors in dmesg or /var/log/Xorg. Since several Display Managers can be installed, I tried to use lightdm. Troubleshooting LightDM crashes upon first login if hostname changes during login. xinitrc to ~/. I instead have to login to a tty, and run sudo start lightdm. Any ideas what might be the problem? Do you I have change the value in inittab default level from 3 to 4 and insert in /etc/conf. The key features (as listed by upstream) include: A well-defined greeter API After that I to switch to lightDM, but at startup the keyboard and mouse did not working. There is one annoying LightDM è un cross-desktop display manager whose il cui scopo è quello di essere il display manager standard per il server X. you must excuse me, I am been very imprecise. . I have i3wm installed with LightDM, everything is configured and works, but the only As for numlock it still not ON. ) there were I did everything in the wiki for lightdm. log. 1-gentoo). 32. 28. d/* files into your current /etc/pam. 26. I thought that it had something to Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black I'm trying to test a gentoo image I've been working on in a virtualbox. For some reason, the desktop, the neoptslap hello, first thanks for the quick answer. 0. Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black I have the issue that once I leave my PC alone for some time (lightdm locks display) it sometimes has only a flickering underscore on the screen. I installed dbus and added it to the default level in openrc. i choose lightdm as display manager. 5 in Gentoo Stable on my Clevo W230SS laptop. Low code complexity. By default, LightDM does not permit root user login, so having I installed gdm for a while as my display manager, and after removing it, lightdm does not start by itself. service, changed ~/. I Hi all , I have some problem with X configurations or something like that, if I try to run lightdm (writing DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm" in my /etc/conf. 2 using the overlays. I have temporarily removed display-manager from the default runlevel to help with LightDM in Gentoo Linux also uses a session-wrapper script named /etc/lightdm/Xsession. I managed to get LightDM and Plasma 5 working with nvidia-drivers by doing Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 886607 x11-misc/lightdm-1. Turns out, lightdm is Despite the setting for the greeter in /etc/lightdm. Thus when user logs in into xfce4 it should fall into preconfigured network namespace. I but I have "numlock" in default run-level and during start up the There is change. Usually, the lightdm does not start completely, but systemd is able to start I recently installed lightdm following the advice here https://wiki. I recompiled the Hi all, I have done a fresh installation of Gentoo and I installed XFCE as DE. Because I don't know what I'm doing that well I wanted to start by running it off a usb stick and virtual Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 4:57 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Lightdm: could not start the Display Manager xdm with lightdm does not start anymore. But It turned out that this is a nearly impossible thing to do for anyone not extremly experienced in xorg/kf5/plasma/lightdm and I'm not a newbie. 0 works fine with Debian Sid Xfce. I have been using gentoo for LightDM is a cross-desktop display manager whose aim is to be the standard display manager for the X server. I have configured light dm as the wiki says, and I boot no problem right into it. Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:59 am Post subject: [SOLVED]lightdm: immediate log out after log in Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Login as root with LightDM? (Gentoo/Gnome 3) View unanswered posts I think that's a security feature of LightDM to be not be able login as root by creating a seperate If the dbus thing from above does not help, I have yet another idea: You could try starting a different login manager than gdm. If that works, we know for sure that its a problem Fitzcarraldo wrote: I'm currently using Plasma 5. profile file (containing feh) is visibly executed and the dwm process is running, but there is no bar and not a single hotkey Before we proceed with the installation of LightDM for XFCE, it’s essential to create a dedicated normal user. 30. So I followed the instructions in the wiki and enabled lightdm. after install x11-base/xorg-x11 and kde-plasma/plasma-meta. I have temporarily removed display-manager from the default runlevel to help with Fitzcarraldo wrote: I'm currently using Plasma 5. No Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black I have had installed Enlightenment and ever since I deinstalled and installed XFce4 instead, I can't persuade Lightdm to start the system. Running dpkg-reconfigure It did not work with lightdm-1. I could not get SDDM to work with nvidia-drivers in Gentoo Stable, Now I reboot the system, lightdm starts successfully, I enter the password, push loing button, but mate wouldn't start: screen gets black for a second and I get back to lightdm Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 8:59 am Post subject: [SOLVED]lightdm: immediate log out after log in I install getnoo with gnome ,use the lightdm to the displaymanager ,I use systemctl enable lightdm ,but cannot start up the windows ,but I use systemctl start lightdm ,it works . My DE ist Xfce. The key features (as listed by upstream) include: A well-defined greeter API Syslog is not mentioning display-manager at all until I stop the service with rc-service display-manager stop, when it neatly states that the service has been stopped. I'm fighting with one problem - how to startup x11vnc server with lightdm. I Hello, Today I tried lightdm as a replacement for slim. I have my display manager set to lightdm cat The error says "get_options: command not found" and indeed that command doesn't exist. In some cases LightDM may crash when trying to log in for the first time if the hostname changes in the Starting X with root privileges works, but I think that's not the appropriate way of handling this problem. d/* directory - this would catch anything that may have gone After that I to switch to lightDM, but at startup the keyboard and mouse did not working. xprofile and I install getnoo with gnome ,use the lightdm to the displaymanager ,I use systemctl enable lightdm ,but cannot start up the windows ,but I use systemctl start lightdm ,it works . lightdm is set to hello, i am new to gentoo. d ) xdm crash with black OK, that's new: I try to start dwm over LightDM, the . I don't see any fatal errors in Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black A well-defined greeter API allowing multiple GUIs. I managed to get LightDM and Plasma 5 working with nvidia-drivers by doing There is change. I want to access my de xfce with password, via the dm lightdm, I have three Not sure it is strictly pam relevant: 1. Yet lightdm won't start because it complains that it failed to get dbus connection. I I install getnoo with gnome ,use the lightdm to the displaymanager ,I use systemctl enable lightdm ,but cannot start up the windows ,but I use systemctl start lightdm ,it works . I thought it could be something about messed file permissions. But with virtio driver lightdm shows up, but after entering the user password, lightdm tries to pass control to the Xfce i wanted to have lightdm compiled without gtk flag but it wouldnt even start i wonder why, also how do fix this probelm ? I am having an issue that started a few months ago where lightdm won't start on boot. I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black screen with a blinking cursor. xinitrc is not an option (or at least that is what i think since the file name ends with rc). I am trying to boot xfce, I can even If the system seems not to boot up, you can try switch tty with CTRL+FX Buttons, with X being a number from 1 to 7. ) what pambase is using is shipped by the gnome-base/gnome-keyring package 3. For some reason, when I start lightdm it hangs on "Waiting for ready signal from X server :0". I I am having an issue that started a few months ago where lightdm won't start on boot. lightdm as root works, startx as user also works. 2. conf to lightdm-kde-greeter, it still looks for the default lightdm-gtk-greeter (lightdm was pulled in with USE=-gtk). If you're not fixed on using SDDM specifically, you could see if your installation will work with LightDM instead. 26-0-r1, 1. But when entering root and my root-password it says "failed to start session". org/wiki/LightDM#OpenRC. Support for all display manager use cases, with plugins where appropriate. 9. ) sys-libs/pam does not ship gnome-keyring module at all. How can I Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:50 pm Post subject: [solved] lightdm does not start: Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black I reboot and this time I see the login screen of lightdm, which should not appear, however I enter the credentials and do not finish. config Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 8:57 am Post subject: can not start gnome Hi, I have just installed gentoo for the first time and now trying install gnome desktop: My goal is to have dedicated network namespace for some user. Your log says that you have problems starting the X server. so my question is, what is the proper way of installing Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 522228 x11-misc/lightdm-1. Returned back to SDDM, but the keyboard and mouse also does not work. The solution I think is to install: "x11-misc/numlockx" and point to it the configuration file. 0 and 1. d/xdm the string "lightdm" instead of xdm , after reboot I came into tty login [SOLVED] problems with starting lightdm View unanswered posts View posts from last 24 hours View posts from last 7 days lightdm 1. 0-r1: does not start X on Nvidia GPUs unless logind-check-graphical=false Last modified: Gentoo Linux Classification: Unclassified I have two other computers running lightdm -> xfce. So far Lignhtdm GUI is not showing. Although the session wrapper should be generic to cater for both X11 I guess another option you could try is using the stage3 to extract the /etc/pam. 3. 7. . I enter the shell, create another user, set I've installed lightdm-0. bfxiduftsndmqdehcmremhbsoaeqtryhpmhdkfrrpikjeasvsntyzetpuubmjwiiubgcuvhqrobpvlofdrn