William Unruh
2024-10-09 18:23:17 UTC
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?
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?