Hi, I’m newbie. I’ve just start a fresh install and updating the system, but upon restart, I cannot go pass through “[Failed] Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager”. Is there any way around?

I also had the same problem. It was a driver(graphics) problem. I did the following to solve it … Ctrl + Alt + F2 Input username and password. Then hit Enter. Now type mhwd -l -d Here you will see a list of installed and available drivers. In the list of available drivers you might find some…

Unfortunately the same thing. Is there a clean way to uninstall/reinstall xorg and led plasma without affecting the rest of the system?

Do not unistall packages, just reinstall them the way i mentioned above about sddm and plasma-desktop. sudo pacman -Syu xorg-xerver xorg-xerver-comon xorg-xerver-wayland This is just an example. Is the display failing to start too if you create a test user and try to log in?

Appreciate the help, but I just ended up reinstalling as the time my computer was down, is longer than the time it would take to set it back up (maybe lol)

Did anyone find a fix? This is the second time it’s happened to me and I’m not installing Manjaro again. The only thing it says for me is “[Failed] Failed to start Simple Desktop Display Manager” and I can’t type anything…

I am facing the same issue. Did you find any solution to this?

I have just encountered this issue as well after the 2020-08-22 update. @anon89812132 I booted off a Live USB and use chroot too run the reinstall you suggested but it did not rectify the issue.

@lallmon : thanks for the photo! exactly what happened to my system today… @el1x : feel you here, don’t know which update exactly bombed my system that way but encountered it today. :frowning: Solution in my case was, what bogdancovaciu posted with stopping, disabling and enabling sddm. After reboot…

Yesss, this did the trick for me. I had recently installed video-vesa without knowing what it was. Stupid me. Thank You!!

I am using optimus-switch-sddm for graphics because it was the only way for me to get my Linux laptop to work with external monitors properly. GitHub - dglt1/optimus-switch-sddm: easy installer for optimus-switch for SDDM, sets up nvidia PRIME and also allows for easy switching between intel/nvidia …

My problem was exactly the same and your solution resolved the issue.

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