After Dec 6 updates, Manjaro XFCE fails to reach login screen. I find this about lightdm from systemctl status lightdm: ○ lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: error (Reason: Unit lightdm.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exis…

are you using plymouth? if yes disable it and try again

systemctl disable lightdm-plymouth.service

Result of the suggested command: ○ lightdm-plymouth.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm-plymouth.service; disabled; preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) This did not fix the problem. In fact, after reboot I find lightdm was disabled as wel…

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Thanks for your attempts to help here, but I decided to install sddm. I encountered a (hopefully) minor problem with that which I could not solve. I started a new thread about it.

Lightdm fails to start after Dec. 6 updates

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maycne.sonahoz 12 December 2022 16:12 7

Try looking for logs:

journalctl --boot=0 --unit=lightdm --no-pager