Hello there, I am quite new to Linux, therefore apologies in advance in case of stupid questions. I have the following issue: I updated the packages last week and since then, gdm service is not starting automatically upon booting up. Of course, I can use tty and start it by myself (systemctl start…

Hi @acerinth No worries. Thanks for taking some time to report back to us! :+1: [image] acerinth: GDM actually does start on its own if I switch to TTY1. I see that you have an optimus laptop. Most likely, you may fix that issue by doing Early KMS as explained in ArchWiki. EDIT: You just …

Hi and welcome to the forum :wave: To start I would find out why the service is not started: $ systemctl status gdm If that does not give a clue $ journalctl --boot --priority=err Would output the errors during the current boot process. Check the update threads for common issues after a upda…

Hello again :wave: I’m sorry for getting back on this so late, I just didn’t have time to play with this. I followed both of your advises, this is what I’ve figured out: @El_Brujo GDM actually does start on its own if I switch to TTY1. This is the GDM status directly after boot: systemctl statu…

GDM service not starting automatically after boot

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El_Brujo 31 May 2021 16:25 3

What happens if you switch TTYs. Does GDM start on its own if you switch to TTY2/TTY1?

If that’s the case, you might need to enable kernel modesetting either via kernel parameter or EKMS.

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EDIT: Please provide further information about your hardware as per below: