Lightdm fails and X does not start

[lujz-br]

Good morning, I’m not sure if this would be the place, but since yesterday I can’t start the computer in graphical mode!

Boot fails and also fails if I enter another tty and try to startx “connection to X server lost”.

The mhwd -li command just returns “video-linux”.
I use Ornara 21.0.7 updated with 5.11.22-2 kernel… even in my grub there’s only this one… then I’ll look for an LTS kernel to fix it!

looking at the startx log I saw two errors:
Failed to load module “fdev” (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load module “vesa” (module does not exist, 0)

Before this post I followed the following tips:
/t/update-error-on-system-update/70244
and
/t/desktop-environment-does-not-start-on-load-i-have-to-run-startx/59074
form this forum…
And
after pacman -Q | grep mhwd

I have removed mhwd-nvidia and mhwd-nvidia-390xx because i have Radeon RX550

How can I fix it?

Thank a lot!!!

[kerry_s]

since it’s lightdm i’m going to assume your using xfce4 desktop.
have you tried reinstalling the desktop?

sudo pacman -S xfce4-desktop

[lujz-br]

Hi, Kerry
I get: not found… xfce4-desktop

with pacman -Q | grep xfce i get:
libxfce4ui
libxfce4util
manjaro-xfce-settings
xfce4-appfinder
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-clipman-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
xfce4-cupgraph-plugin
xfce4-dict
xfce4-diskperf
xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-genmon-plugin
xfce4-mailwathc-plugin
xfce4-mount-plugin
xfce4-mpc-plugin
xfce4-netload-plugin
xfce-notes-plugin
xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-panel
xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
xfce4-screenshooter
xfce4-sensors-plugins
xfce4-session
xfce4-settings
xfce4-smartbookmark
xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager
xfce4-terminal
xfce4-time-out-plugin
xfce4-timer-plugin
xfce4-verve-plugin
xfce4-wavelan-plugin
xfce4-weaher-plugin
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin

In google I dont find xfce4-desktop package

[lujz-br]

Well, I have package xfwm4 Can I reinstall and whole xfce4 will reinstalled?
The system found xfdesktop… It is not on my system…
Thanks!

Edit: I do sudo pacman -S xfwm4

gtk-update-icon-cache: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.8: cannot open shared file: No shuch file or directory
error: command not executed correctly

[kerry_s]

my bag, its:
sudo pacman -S xfce4

[lujz-br]

Thanks! there are 15 options, I dont get one, and pacman reinstall

14: xfconf, exo, garcon, thunar, thunar-volman, tumbler, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-panel, xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-session, xfce4-setting, xfce4-terminal, xfdesktop and xfwm4…
and install: xfwm4-themes

Again:
gtk-update-icon-cache: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.8: cannot open shared file: No shuch file or directory
error: command not executed correctly

I reboot and It dont work Thanks anyway!

[kerry_s]

sudo pacman -S libjpeg-turbo

[lujz-br]

Before I try:
sudo pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service --force

edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, under [Seat:*] replace the greeter-session setting with greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

And it dont work!

Now I do:
sudo pacman -S libjpeg-turbo
sudo pacman -S xfce4
Enter (for 15 packages)
Reboot
and… it’s fine!!!

Thanks a lot!