Updated on an old (sandy bridge) laptop and now I never see a DM/DE, boots to black screen. I can get to TTY2 fine. Running XFCE. No nvidia graphics, just intel.
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inxi output
http://ix.io/3Gx6
sudo dmesg output
http://ix.io/3Gx7
sudo dmesg --level emerg,alert,crit,err,warn output
http://ix.io/3Gx8
looks like journalctl shows a Xorg coredump
http://ix.io/3Gx9
The issue seems related to lightdm failing to start
xorg log
http://ix.io/3Gxb
pacman log
http://ix.io/3Gxc
It is interesting that the last pacman update seemed to do nothing.
Also … did you install vesa gfx driver? If so, please remove it.
mhwd -li
It is interesting that the last pacman update seemed to do nothing.
I was repeatedly running updates sorting out some warnings like having a newer version of something than was in the AUR (then manually installing it, running my update alias again to make sure there were no more). It’s not anything serious or meaningful that I ran updates right after I had just ran them and thus nothing changed.
Also … did you install vesa gfx driver? If so, please remove it.
Not that I recall, but if you think so based on viewing the logs, I’ll take a look. I can tell you for certain I didn’t just do it today when these things broke. I ran updates, and I installed GNU Screen. That’s all the changes I made today.
Well it does fail right around VNC (screensharing) plugin …
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your implication here, but just to be clear, GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer (and my use-case was its ability to handle serial connections) and nothing to do with screensharing or VNC. Forgive me if your VNC/screensharing comment was unrelated to this.
Also, I’m going to pause working on this for today because it’s getting late. The laptop with Manjaro is in another room, but I’ll be sure to check the output of that command you mentioned tomorrow and come back here to continue.
startx wasn’t working either. I found in my shell history that I once edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-vnc.conf, and since the problem seemed to possibly be related to vnc, I deleted that file. I’m not sure I ever used vnc to connect to this machine anyway. I also disabled the VNC extension in the lightdm config before that, but that didn’t change anything, at least on its own. I didn’t try enabling it again. After that, startx worked. I also did a reboot for good measure, and that worked too. It booted right into the graphical session.
Kinda feels like a workaround more than a solution, but it’s something.
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