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54 minutes ago, inalone said:

If you've exhausted all the options with gdm, then try a different display manager, for example sddm (which isn't the prettiest out of the box but easily fixable with themes)

  


sudo pacman -Syu sddm
sudo systemctl stop gdm
sudo systemctl disable gdm
sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl start sddm

If this works, you should reach a login screen where you can log into a GNOME session.

 

EDIT: also it's clear that you're a Linux beginner, and so I really would not recommend using Manjaro personally - try Ubuntu.

well i just gave up and change into KDE Plasma, just checking if its gonna be the same problem or not if it is im just gonna go to Pop_OS my first linux OS.

 

Yeah, im a beginner, never really have an intentions to change os except my laptop cant handle it then i kinda like it so i changed my pc into pop os then manjaro. The reason i like GNOME is because of Pop_OS :D

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There is something that said x/2mins, so I just wait and restart now i have a black screen and i don't know what to do with it..... 

 

 

Manjaro gnome 19.04

 

R3 1200

RX580 8gb

X370 5.80 

16gb ram

512gb ssd

 

Update. There is no gdm.service, watchdog hardware is disabled. 

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Can you even get into a tty login screen? When the screen goes black, try press CTRL + ALT + F2. If it brings up a login, you can login and run "journalctl -b" to get all the information from the current boot to see what's going on.

 

What type of GPU do you have, and did you install anything new prior to this happening?

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41 minutes ago, Steo said:

Can you even get into a tty login screen? When the screen goes black, try press CTRL + ALT + F2. If it brings up a login, you can login and run "journalctl -b" to get all the information from the current boot to see what's going on.

 

What type of GPU do you have, and did you install anything new prior to this happening?

I could login. 

R3 1200

RX580 8gb

X370

16GB RAM

 

No I just want to restart cause I'm laggy. 

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If you can login, try running that "journalctl -b" command. You can hold shift and scroll through it with the arrow keys or PGUP and PGDN. Look for red text with errors, this should at least point you in the right direction to find out what's broken.

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20 minutes ago, Steo said:

If you can login, try running that "journalctl -b" command. You can hold shift and scroll through it with the arrow keys or PGUP and PGDN. Look for red text with errors, this should at least point you in the right direction to find out what's broken.

It said watchdog hardware disabled and pam_get_uid : no such user

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Try running "sudo pacman -S mesa" in the tty to reinstall the graphics drivers, then reboot. If the issue still persists, something might have screwed up your xorg.conf.

 

You could try backing up your xorg.conf and deleting it to see if it boots. If xorg.conf exists, you can make move it to your home directory as a test by running: 

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~/xorg.conf

If you happen to have xorg.conf.d instead, you will have to list the configurations to find out which one is the AMD one, then move it: 

ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

For example, if the AMD one was named 20-amdgpu.conf, you'd run this to move it: 

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf ~/20-amdgpu.conf

Then reboot and see if X will actually start.

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17 minutes ago, Steo said:

Try running "sudo pacman -S mesa" in the tty to reinstall the graphics drivers, then reboot. If the issue still persists, something might have screwed up your xorg.conf.

 

You could try backing up your xorg.conf and deleting it to see if it boots. If xorg.conf exists, you can make move it to your home directory as a test by running: 


sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~/xorg.conf

If you happen to have xorg.conf.d instead, you will have to list the configurations to find out which one is the AMD one, then move it: 


ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

For example, if the AMD one was named 20-amdgpu.conf, you'd run this to move it: 


sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf ~/20-amdgpu.conf

Then reboot and see if X will actually start.

This is what I got after doing it

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Seems you have no xorg.conf for the GPU, but it should still be able to boot this way.

 

Anyway, this might be your problem, it's really not recommended to run "pacman -Sy", you should always use "pacman -Syu" or just "pacman -S", never -Sy or -Su, as this can perform half upgrades and break things. Try to run "pacman -Syu" instead and see if it can resolve the dependency issues it likely has.

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Seems you have no xorg.conf for the GPU, but it should still be able to boot this way.

 

Anyway, this might be your problem, it's really not recommended to run "pacman -Sy", you should always use "pacman -Syu" or just "pacman -S", never -Sy or -Su, as this can perform half upgrades and break things. Try to run "pacman -Syu" instead and see if it can resolve the dependency issues it likely has.

It's already up to date and I even used -Syyu

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Can you post the output of "journalctl -p 3 -xb"? This should just show all errors since last boot and it might help narrow it down.

 

EDIT: Also, run journalctl with sudo. "sudo journalctl -p 3 -xb".

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OK, then try checking your xorg log file, surely this will narrow it down. Ignore the watchdog thing for now, I get that too. 

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Try to look for errors.

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OK, then try checking your xorg log file, surely this will narrow it down. Ignore the watchdog thing for now, I get that too. 


cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Try to look for errors.

No such file directory. How about a xinit server error? 

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It's xserver failing to start, which normally leads to graphics drivers being the culprit. On the off chance that xorg somehow just became completely messed up, try reinstalling it: 

sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

 

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It's xserver failing to start, which normally leads to graphics drivers being the culprit. On the off chance that xorg somehow just became completely messed up, try reinstalling it: 


sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

 

The first one is installed the second command is not found. 

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The second one is from the Extra repository, you'd have to remove the # from these lines in etc/pacman.conf 

#[extra]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

You'd have to use "sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf" to edit it, then press CTRL + X and press ENTER to save the file, then run "sudo pacman -Syu xorg-server". I don't see why it wouldn't be installed in the first place though if it had been working before. Another one you should probably have installed is "xf86-video-amdgpu".

 

What display manager are you using by the way?

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The second one is from the Extra repository, you'd have to remove the # from these lines in etc/pacman.conf 


#[extra]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

You'd have to use "sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf" to edit it, then press CTRL + X and press ENTER to save the file, then run "sudo pacman -Syu xorg-server". I don't see why it wouldn't be installed in the first place though if it had been working before. Another one you should probably have installed is "xf86-video-amdgpu".

 

What display manager are you using by the way?

Display manager? Mhwd I think. 

OK I'll try the # something 

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I meant like GDM, LXDM, SDDM, LightDM etc. Basically, are you using GNOME, KDE Plasma 5, or Xfce as your Manjaro environment?

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8 minutes ago, Steo said:

The second one is from the Extra repository, you'd have to remove the # from these lines in etc/pacman.conf 


#[extra]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

It failed.... 

I wish I do timeshift I was planning to use timeshift after downloading my stuffs..... 

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You need to use nano, it would be "sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf".

 

EDIT: Then the Display Manager is likely GDM. If you run "sudo systemctl start GDM", what happens?

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You need to use nano, it would be "sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf".

 

EDIT: Then the Display Manager is likely GDE. If you run "sudo systemctl start GDM", what happens?

Failed to start GDM.service : unit GDM.service not found. Is this finally gonna get solve? 

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Strange, maybe it's using LightDM instead. Anyway, it seems you're not the only one to have this issue, it affected other Arch users and it was caused by an update https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=253340

 

In this case they could just fix it by updating, though I would suggest reinstalling GNOME. 

sudo pacman -S gnome

Then you should be able to run 

systemctl enable gdm.service --force

If the systemctl command fails, use "sudo systemctl enable gdm.service --force" instead.

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9 minutes ago, Steo said:

Strange, maybe it's using LightDM instead. Anyway, it seems you're not the only one to have this issue, it affected other Arch users and it was caused by an update https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=253340

 

In this case they could just fix it by updating, though I would suggest reinstalling GNOME. 


sudo pacman -S gnome

Then you should be able to run 


systemctl enable gdm.service --force

If the systemctl command fails, use "sudo systemctl enable gdm.service --force" instead.

Is this it? 

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