Hi, I recently did a kernel update to 5.9.11-3 and when trying to start that particular instance it stucks loading at the lightmanager load.
The lightmanager log output:
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /home/ray/.cache/lightdm/log/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.30.0, UID=1000 PID=1685
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: [LightDM] contains unknown option display-setup-script
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Running in user mode
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ?gio-vfs?
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats
[+0.01s] DEBUG: New seat added from logind: seat0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Loading properties from config section Seat:*
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 has property CanMultiSession=no
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+0.01s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+0.01s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 added
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process ?plymouth? (No such file or directory)
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Logging to /home/ray/.cache/lightdm/log/x-0.log
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Writing X server authority to /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.02s] WARNING: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/run/lightdm/root/:0?: Permission denied
[+0.02s] WARNING: XServer 0: Failed to write authority: Failed to open X authority /run/lightdm/root/:0: Permission denied
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Launching X Server
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Launching process 1690: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.02s] WARNING: Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Error opening directory '/var/lib/lightdm-data': Permission denied
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Process 1690 exited with return value 1
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1
I’m on the video-nvidia-430xx drivers, since those were the only drivers so far that ran fine for me. I had to roll back from 440xx a while back since those weren’t running well on my system.
Not sure what’s going on there, may be another issue or may just be the driver.
Have you tried 5.4?
Most of the nvidia drivers have been removed, due to nvidia’s shennagins, so 5.9 only has 390xx, 450xx, and 455xx. If you need 430xx you’ll have to use 5.4.
$ pacman -Ss linux59-nvidia
extra/linux59-nvidia-390xx 390.132-6 (linux59-extramodules)
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
extra/linux59-nvidia-450xx 450.80.02-10 (linux59-extramodules)
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
extra/linux59-nvidia-455xx 455.45.01-4 (linux59-extramodules)
NVIDIA drivers for linux.
First I was mostly just posting to tell you about the driver situation, as I know little about hybrid graphics and I’m not sure what’s going on in the log. I’m also going out soon.
Linux 5.7 and 5.8 are end of life, ie don’t use them, try 5.4 with the 430 driver which you know works.