System errors with lightdm: wrong startup screen resolution on Intel HD 620

Hello everyone!!

Since kernel update (to 5.7) in August 12th, I’ve been having this problem: when my machine boots up sometimes it renders 1024x768, but the correct resolution is 1366x768. In order to know what is the problem I typed sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb in the terminal and got:

-- Logs begin at Tue 2020-07-28 08:02:21 -05, end at Tue 2020-10-06 14:52:39 -05. --
oct 06 14:13:21 siwar-pc lightdm[917]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
oct 06 14:13:22 siwar-pc ntpd[1018]: bind(21) AF_INET6 fe80::34fb:dafc:9c35:5eca%3#123 flags 0x11 failed: Cannot assign requested addr>
oct 06 14:13:22 siwar-pc ntpd[1018]: unable to create socket on wlp1s0 (5) for fe80::34fb:dafc:9c35:5eca%3#123
oct 06 14:13:36 siwar-pc systemd-coredump[1246]: Process 968 (qtile) of user 1000 dumped core.

I’m relatively new to Linux and I’ve been reading the arch wiki but I still don’t know how to fix the problem.

:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. You posted in English in the Spanish category. No wonder no one looked at your issue. (fixed that for you already)

Please read this:

and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…

An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information… (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)

:innocent:

Thanks!!

As for the command inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width I got the following:

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
  root=UUID=6ee4e8c2-2ae3-4139-ac05-07dd7afd835a rw quiet udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Qtile 0.16.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 14-3467 v: N/A serial: <filter>
  Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Dell model: 029XY7 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 2.10.0
  date: 05/10/2019
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.51 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (6.8%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
  arch: Amber Lake family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: D6
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB bogomips: 21607
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
  4: 800
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
  sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
  xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  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: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  bus ID: 1-5:2 chip ID: 0bda:5769 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting
  alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7")
  diag: 354mm (13.9")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.11-1-MANJARO
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
  vendor: Dell Vostro 3470 driver: ath9k v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 01:00.0
  chip ID: 168c:0036
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-8:5
  chip ID: 0cf3:e005
  WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 23.85 GiB (2.6%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0A-00SM50
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> rev: 00WD scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVD+-RW GU90N rev: A1C1
  dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.60 GiB (98.32%)
  used: 23.85 GiB (2.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 label: N/A
  uuid: 6ee4e8c2-2ae3-4139-ac05-07dd7afd835a
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300.0 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
  used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A uuid: 0D64-0D52
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0bda:5769
  serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
  type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc
  interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0bda:0129 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-8:5 info: Qualcomm Atheros type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
  interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0cf3:e005
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: 33.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
  Processes: 151 Uptime: 40m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
  Packages: pacman: 1333 lib: 338 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: alacritty
  inxi: 3.1.05

From dmesg I got the following:

[   17.017716] audit: type=1131 audit(1602081391.045:54): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=NetworkManager-dispatcher comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=pam_shells,pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock,pam_gnome_keyring acct="siwar" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=? addr=? terminal=:0 res=success'm_permit,pam_time acct="siwar" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=? addr=? terminal=:0 res=success'p=PAM:session_close grantors=pam_unix,pam_systemd acct="lightdm" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=? addr=? terminal=:0 res=success'sg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_env,pam_permit acct="lightdm" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=? addr=? terminal=:0 res=success'967295 msg='op=PAM:setcred grantors=pam_shells,pam_faillock,pam_permit,pam_faillock,pam_gnome_keyring acct="siwar" exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=? addr=? terminal=:0 res=success'=157739] audit: type=1130 audit(1602081398.685:62): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=user-runtime-dir@1000 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'95 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:accounting grantors=pam_access,pam_permit,pam_time acct="siwar" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'etcred grantors=? acct="siwar" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'
[   52.943534] qtile[963]: segfault at 7f82ca0baca0 ip 00007f82ca0baca0 sp 00007ffdf22ef178 error 14 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.6600.0[7f82ca0fd000+e000]

I searched for it in the arch wiki, but I’m still not sure what this means.

Does this also happen when you create a new user and log in there?

Hi!
I tried doing something different. I enabled auto login and aparently the problem with lightdm and qtile disappeared. My system booted up with correct screen resolution. Here I provide the result of the command sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb:

-- Logs begin at Tue 2020-07-28 08:02:21 -05, end at Fri 2020-10-09 19:04:14 -05. --
oct 09 18:58:00 siwar-pc ntpd[852]: bind(21) AF_INET6 fe80::34fb:dafc:9c35:5eca%3#123 flags 0x11 failed: Cannot assign requested address
oct 09 18:58:00 siwar-pc ntpd[852]: unable to create socket on wlp1s0 (5) for fe80::34fb:dafc:9c35:5eca%3#123

Though, I still don’t know if the “solution” is going to be permanent, and also I don’t know what these other problems are about.