Manjaro Budgie won't load desktop on boot, have to startx

Hi all, first time here.
I’m hoping I’m posting in the correct category, let me know if I need to post this some where else.
I have been using Manjaro Budgie for some time with no issues.
I have recently installed a SSD and freshly installed Manjaro Budgie and struck a few problems.
I have managed to work through most of these by following solutions in the forums (thanks everyone :slight_smile: )
The one remaining issue is every time I boot I end up with a blank screen as the desktop environment doesn’t load.
I’m able to press ctrl alt f2 to login and startx to load the desktop.
Some posts indicate this maybe a lightdm issue, but I haven’t found a solution that works yet.
I’m a bit of a newbie on the terminal but I’m happy to follow instructions :smiley:

Inixi output:

  Kernel: 5.15.46-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=f3301357-5028-45c3-b9f9-ccfefe38cddb rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=ad9a5701-e967-4058-b869-0c9b7eb78a8f
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Budgie v: 10.6.1 info: budgie-panel wm: budgie-wm dm: LightDM
    v: 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-bw0xx v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8330 v: 27.32 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.22 date: 03/09/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 26.0 Wh (79.0%) condition: 32.9/41.6 Wh (78.9%)
    volts: 16.5 min: 14.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: charging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.72 GiB used: 1.47 GiB (39.6%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD E2-9000e RADEON R2 4 COMPUTE CORES 2C+2G bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Excavator built: 2015 process: GF 28nm family: 0x15 (21)
    model-id: 0x70 (112) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x6006704
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 192 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1264 high: 1323 min/max: 1100/1500 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1323 2: 1206
    bogomips: 5990
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acc_power aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2
    bmi1 bmi2 bpext clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cr8_legacy
    cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fma4
    fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm lwp mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nodeid_msr
    nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter
    pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
    pse36 ptsc rdtscp rep_good sep skinit smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2
    sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall tbm tce tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload
    vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xop xsave xsaveopt
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN 2 process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0
    chip-ID: 1002:98e4 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD Camera
    type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1:2 chip-ID: 05c8:03ac class-ID: 0e02
    serial: <filter>
  Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.2
    compositor: budgie-wm driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: BOE Display 0x06a4 built: 2015
    res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1366x768 min: 640x480
  Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.46-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.4:4 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 167.68 GiB used: 10.92 GiB (6.5%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2BW180A4
    size: 167.68 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: DC12 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 159.2 GiB size: 155.64 GiB (97.77%) used: 10.92 GiB (7.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: f3301357-5028-45c3-b9f9-ccfefe38cddb
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 3F28-D9DF
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.19 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: swap
    uuid: ad9a5701-e967-4058-b869-0c9b7eb78a8f
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Maxxter Telink Wireless Receiver
    type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 50mA chip-ID: 248a:8367 class-ID: 0301
  Device-2: 1-1.4:4 info: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1:2
    info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP TrueVision HD Camera
    type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 05c8:03ac class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 60.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 199 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1096
  lib: 346 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.17```

I forgot to mention that I have fully updated the system.
Also I often get the following errors when booting:
[FAILED] failed to start Light Display Manager.
[FAILED] failed to start pkgfile database update.

journalctl provides the following info:

Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._STA.WLVD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/psar>
Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse->
Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._STA.WLVD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/psar>
Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse->
Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.WLBU._STA.WLVD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210730/psar>
Jun 14 20:14:24 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.WLBU._STA due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20210730/psparse->
Jun 14 20:14:27 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: can't request region for resource [mem 0xe7b76000-0xe7b79fff]
Jun 14 20:14:30 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 1373 and the job result is failed.
Jun 14 20:14:31 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx kernel: kfd kfd: amdgpu: STONEY  not supported in kfd
Jun 14 20:43:32 dion-hplaptop15bw0xx login[524]: pam_systemd(login:session): Failed to release session: Interrupted system call

Ok, installing Plymouth solves the issue, but does give a noisy boot - but hey it works :slight_smile:
I followed the advice here:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/failed-to-start-light-display-manager-but-works-from-tty/80124

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