I recently wanted to replace PulseAudio with Pipewire and in doing that I removed gdm, gnome-shell and xorg (as well as other packages). I managed to reinstall everything needed through the TTY.
The problem is that sometimes when I login from GDM I get a black screen and can’t even switch to another TTY. I briefly looked at the systemd logs but couldn’t find anything. Does anyone know what’s wrong or how I could find out what’s wrong?
Hi @TecCheck,
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Also, please provide the output for:
journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=3
Oh, I totally forgot this. Here’s the output of journalctl:
Feb 05 09:36:34 cpc kernel:
Feb 05 09:36:37 cpc colord-sane[844]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Feb 05 09:36:38 cpc colord-sane[1154]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Feb 05 09:36:38 cpc colord-sane[1183]: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Feb 05 09:36:39 cpc gnome-session-binary[1325]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Feb 05 09:36:39 cpc gnome-session-binary[1325]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Feb 05 09:37:16 cpc gdm-password][1616]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
EDIT: I pasted the logs from the wrong boot. Now it’s correct
Thank you!
Well, it doesn’t tell me much. But then, I’m not a gnome user. 
So maybe it will tell someone else something more than just ‘stuff’s broken’. 
But
I’m going to go ahead and guess your problem lies with that 
So try reinstalling xors as well as Gome. I’m not 
certain, of course, but try reinstalling xorg and gnome-shell:
pamac install xorg-server
pamac install gnome-shell
Thank you. I did that and installed gdm-plymouth instead of gdm. I’ll test it the next few days.