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luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

X or GUI doesn't start

Hi. I'm really loving Q4OS. It's beautiful, light, customizable and It brought a old laptop back to life!
After OS installed I download "xserver-xorg-video-openchrome" and my graphics become beautiful!

The problem is - even on Live CD - the xorg ou GUI doesn't start automatically. After boot I get a black text screen asking loggin/password and then I have to type "startx". The GUI works fine with everything in its own place. But I have to call it every time. 

Here my inxi -f

System:    Host: tatiane-pc Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5
           Distro: Q4OS 3.10.2-n1
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Semp Toshiba product: IS-1462 v: 01 serial: <root required>
           Mobo: Semp Toshiba model: IS-1462 v: 0.1 serial: <root required> BIOS: Semp Toshiba v: 1.0D-V 06-000F
           date: 06/23/2008
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 3.3 Wh condition: 47.6/48.8 Wh (97%)
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual T2390 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 1024 KiB
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/1867 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798
Graphics:  Device-1: VIA CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] driver: N/A
           Display: tty server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: openchrome unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6
Audio:     Device-1: VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HDA driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64
Network:   Device-1: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] driver: via-rhine
           IF: enp0s18 state: down mac: 00:14:0b:64:e0:98
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter type: USB driver: rtl8187
           IF: wlx0017c4372155 state: up mac: 00:17:c4:37:21:55
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 5.41 GiB (3.6%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD1600BEVS-00VAT0 size: 149.05 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 141.63 GiB used: 5.41 GiB (3.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.14 GiB used: 780 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends
Info:      Processes: 133 Uptime: 28m Memory: 1.88 GiB used: 923.9 MiB (47.9%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32
tatiane@tatiane-pc:~$ inxi -man
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.88 GiB used: 921.4 MiB (47.8%)
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
Network:   Device-1: VIA VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] driver: via-rhine
           IF: enp0s18 state: down mac: 00:14:0b:64:e0:98
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter type: USB driver: rtl8187
           IF: wlx0017c4372155 state: up mac: 00:17:c4:37:21:55

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: X or GUI doesn't start

You could try to reconfigure the display manager:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sddm
select SDDM display manager, reboot and post back a result.

You can also check errors in /var/log/syslog and attach it here for us to analyze.

luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

Re: X or GUI doesn't start

Hi, thank's your feedback.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sddm

This command does nothing, neither a error message.

How can I open the "syslog" file? I could open with -sudo nano syslog- but I can't copy the text. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again!

q4osteam

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Re: X or GUI doesn't start

If you are using Plasma desktop, you need to have sddm display manager installed and configured. So run in terminal:

$ sudo apt install sddm sddm-theme-debian-breeze
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure sddm

and post back terminal output of the commands above.

luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

Re: X or GUI doesn't start

I already have this package installed, so I checked then to reinstall. OK this step

the command dpkg-reconfigure... does nothing again. Look:

Sorry the image, I could paste the code. I'm a newbie

q4osteam

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Re: X or GUI doesn't start

Well, now try to run sddm from the tty terminal, before the Xorg starts:
$ sudo systemctl status sddm.service
$ sudo systemctl restart sddm.service

luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

Re: X or GUI doesn't start

I think nothing happens again.

$ sudo systemctl status sddm.service

gave me this:

$ sudo systemctl restart sddm.service

gave me this:

Both commands got me stucked on their screens, so I had to hit CTRL+Z to exit them.

q4osteam

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Re: X or GUI doesn't start

It looks like the SDDM manager doesn't start properly, or crashes silently. We would need to do a little debugging. Please run in terminal before the X server starts:
$ sudo systemctl stop sddm.service
$ sudo sddm
If the command prints some terminal output, post the messages here.

Wait a minute for sddm to initialize and run:
$ sudo journalctl | gzip > /tmp/journal.gz
and send generated '/tmp/journal.gz' file via e-mail "support@q4os.org" or attach it here to analyze. You can add attachment by 'post reply -> choose file'

luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

Re: X or GUI doesn't start

Hi.

$ sudo systemctl stop sddm.service
$ sudo sddm

Wait for 10min +/- and nothing happed, so I hitted CTRL+Z to exit.
After this I checked the sddm status and it shown Stoped. So I restart the service before generate that log file you requested. I checked again with sddm status and it shown Active

So the log file is with sddm restarted.

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luciano

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Registered: 2020-01-16

Posts: 6

Re: X or GUI doesn't start

After some days using it sporadically I decided to test TDE over Plasma. When installed Trinity, I got the start session screen back. But the Trinity start screen. I think the problem is Plasma.