On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright
<deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary
> AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots
> into the GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the
> recommended way make it boot into the GUI?
Perhaps check systemctl status display-manager.service
I ran : sudo systemctl status display-manager.service >out.txtbefore typing
startx.The contents of out.txt were:--- cut here---
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-03-15 17:05:38 WET; 1min 38s ago
Invocation: 90744993196344b4b14777576400eeb5
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Main PID: 967 (lightdm)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 14229)
Memory: 2.4M (peak: 2.9M)
CPU: 23ms
CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service
└─967 /usr/sbin/lightdm
Mar 15 17:05:38 cetus systemd[1]: Starting lightdm.service - Light Display
Manager...
Mar 15 17:05:38 cetus lightdm[967]: 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
Mar 15 17:05:38 cetus systemd[1]: Started lightdm.service - Light Display
Manager.
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