Just updated my computer, and now X doesn’t start for my normal user, but root is able to start it. Have an X1 Carbon 6th gen, using Gnome and GDM. Checked that there’s no missing updates, and tried a different kernel. As I’m able run startx as root, there’s probably something with my configuratio…

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Any tips on how to best do this when the computer doesn’t have a graphical environment? I bet the forums doesn’t work well with a text based browser without ja.

Boot with a live USB if available, then you would have a graphical environment.

That didn’t work very well. Booting from live USB, get Mount: /run/miso/SFS/livefs: can’t read superblock on /dev/loop0 And it drops me to a root shell.

System: Kernel: 5.15.6-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64 root=UUID=25d18b48-351c-4930-b54a-a9c71ea32520 rw quiet cryptdevice=UUID=95c7ffac-c92e-49e4-bb1b-e17b7eaf81bf:luks-95c7ffac-c92e-49e4-bb1b-e17b7eaf81bf root=/de…

Unable to start X after upgrade

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Yochanan 15 December 2021 20:23 2

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