On Samstag, 11. März 2023, 13:17:12 CET Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:03:41 GMT Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After having done a world update, neither sddm nor lightdm do start an > > Xserver anymore. The X server itself runs fine, I can start it from the > > console and I after setting DISPLAY properly can even start programs using > > it, but the login managers do not start X for some reason. > > > > No hint so far in the logs, and no ideas where I should looking. > > > > The system is running inside a virtualbox VM, with Win10 as host operating > > system. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks > > > > Alex > > Asking the obvious, but is display-manager service running?
Of course. I even tried starting it on the command line with the -d option to see whether I get any useful information. lightdm -d [+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log [+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.32.0, UID=0 PID=1176 [+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: Using Xephyr for X servers [+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 local (GLocalVfs) for ?gio-vfs? [+0.00s] DEBUG: Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3) [+0.01s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats [+0.01s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager [+0.01s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process ?plymouth? (No such file or directory) [+0.02s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts [+0.02s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User2001 added [+0.02s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 added [+0.09s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User2002 added ^C[+27.38s] DEBUG: Got signal 2 from process 0 [+27.38s] DEBUG: Caught Interrupt signal, shutting down [+27.38s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager [+27.38s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped [+27.38s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon [+27.38s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 0
