Hey, yesterday I installed Arch on a VM for the first time and today I wanted to install a window manager.
After looking around for a while online I decided that I want to try QTile and I'm currently following a tutorial.
My problem is that, after installing everything that was shown, the tutorial goes on rebooting to get the lightdm login screen, but rebooting my VM just gets me to a black screen that for some reason resizes itself a few time, but doesn't actually show anything.
Did anyone have the same issue as me? Does anyone know how I could try to fix it (I'm still not experienced with linux)?
#Have lightdm login show up in a VirtualBox VM
barren saffron
simple estuary
Hey, yesterday I installed Arch on a VM for the first time and today I wanted to...
A greeter must be installed for lightdm to work.
Please post the output of the following command
pacman -Qs lightdm greeter
The command doesnt output anything, even though i remember installing something that had greeter in its name
simple estuary
The command doesnt output anything, even though i remember installing something ...
What greeter did you install?
barren saffron
i dont exaclty remeber the name of it since i installed it yesterday
simple estuary
Every greeter for Lightdm in the official arch repository contains the keyword greeter.
barren saffron
seems i actually misspelled the command, i rentered the one you sent and it outputs this:
simple estuary
seems i actually misspelled the command, i rentered the one you sent and it outp...
Can you post the output of
journalctl -u lightdm -S -2d
If your VM has internet access, you can use this command to upload the output to ix.io
journalctl -u lightdm -S -2d | gzip | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
which one would be easier for you to read?
simple estuary
which one would be easier for you to read?
journalctl would be rather long, thus I suggest you to upload the output to ix.io
simple estuary
and yes i choose the dumbest name for my vm XD
Can you upload the log from this point?
journalctl -S 09:44:00 | gzip | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
Perusing this section of the log, I suspect it is a problem with the Virtualbox graphics driver.
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw lightdm[486]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw kernel: [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw kernel: [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw kernel: [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
Aug 02 09:44:33 iusearchbtw kernel: [drm:vmw_msg_ioctl [vmwgfx]] *ERROR* Failed to open channel.
Aug 02 09:44:34 iusearchbtw systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
is there a way i can fix this?
simple estuary
is there a way i can fix this?
Sorry, I am not familiar with virtualbox, thus I cannot to provide a solution to this problem, but the search engines should yield some results.
barren saffron
you already pointed me to the right direction, thanks!