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Manjaro GNOME immediately logs out after logging in (via GUI) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: I kinda solved it by installing Wayland (with Nvidia card, Ouch!) to replace Xorg. Not sure if this is gonna last though. Perhaps Manjaro is the one I'm gonna throw out FIRST if anything happens from now on.

What should be the first line of defense? Timeshift?

This happened after I installed AUR package masterpdfeditor and 2 applications from github (some hashing algorithm programs, I think they were "Dilithium" and "Latice-based-cryptography-main", one of them was provided by NIST.)

If using GUI: I login, black screen for few seconds, then back at login screen.

If going to ctrl+alt+f2, login successful, then startx, see picture provided (higher quality).

I tried adding a new user, but result is the same.

I have a live usb to do the Timeshift. (I can also chroot if necessary... But I'm not extremely professional)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Run this before startx maybe:

xhost +local:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ok so clearly none of the people commenting here have even bothered to look at your picture or have no idea what you are doing so feel free to ignore them.

Question 1: what's in your .xinitrc?

Question 2: why are you starting X this way? It's not for beginners, and from your question it doesn't sound like you're an advanced user.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Don't use startx to start X, use the display manager: systemctl restart lightdm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It said I not found or something. I'll try again tomorrow for full error message

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/graphical-session-doesnt-start-first-time-invalid-mit-magic-cookie-1/5947/8

Check /etc/hostname

This is based on the image, the best you can do it check the logs like other comments said, it's better if the error is identified through the log.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not about the host name. They clearly have invalid mappings in their ~/.Xmodmap (if you'd care to look at the picture).

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Start by not using Manjaro. Seriously this won't be the first time this happens to you. It's not a great distro. Consider EndevourOS if you want Arch without the command line install.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Have you checked the log files under /var/log/xorg.0....log?

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Troubleshooting

If you want to get your graphical session back quickly, maybe try setting up GNOME with wayland (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME#Wayland_sessions)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I second the wayland option. Then you at least have a working gui with all your settings and recent work intact while you try to find the glitch in your Xorg install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

You can also check /var/log/pacman.log for the packages you installed, then pacman -Ql the packages to list what files they might have changed

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ah classic mistake of installing AUR packages on manjaro. been there done that. check your logs and search for errors, it probably overwrote/deleted some xorg config that you must either manually add back or regenerate. sorry i can't help further im a linux noobie but that was my issue when this happened to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would a package called "masterpdfcreator" overwrite the x conf? I don't think the AUR packages have anything to do with the problem.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Manjaro is not up-to-date with Arch repos. Using AUR in Manjaro is a huge mistake.

If you wanna use AUR, I suggest you to go all in with Arch itself

However I still recommend you to use AUR as less as possible, cause too many AUR can mess even with Arch

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

However I still recommend you to use AUR as less as possible, cause too many AUR can mess even with Arch

Based on what?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Based on Arch USER Repository.

AUR packages are maintained by users and can install and overwrite packages in your system and if you install AUR enough, you'll certainly install a package that corrupts your system.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

One of your steps should be to throw Manjaro in the trash and install EndeavourOS instead.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

How would their problem be any different on Endeavour? They are circumventing the normal X greeter and starting a custom X session.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Classic, never fix anything, just change to , you wouldnt have experienced any problems, ever

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I would usually agree but Manjaro is a broken piece of garbage. Use Arch or Endeavour if you want to gain experience on an arch based distro.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This issue is more than likely caused by Manjaro itself.

So yeah, probably would not have experienced this issue on EndeavourOS, that's right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This issue is more than likely caused by Manjaro itself.

The issue is caused by OP disabling lightdm and using a custom X session. It would've backfired on any distro on the planet, because they messed up something in that session.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I agree that manjaro is shit, but "your distro is shit" is not helpful advice for someone who wants to get their graphical session back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Of course it's not, hence why I said "one of your steps".

As in, get your data back, and then drop Manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

so why would Envdeavor not experience this issue? Does it simply not have the AUR? That's very unfortunate. Or are they simply not holding back like in ~~Arch~~ Manjaro?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OP's problem was not caused by an AUR package. They're leaving out some details about how they ruined their X setup themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or are they simply not holding back like in Arch?

I'll assume you mean Manjaro here -- Arch doesn't hold back packages.

And yes, Manjaro holds back packages from the main Arch repos which can break compatibility with the AUR.

EndeavourOS is pretty much literally a GUI installer for Arch.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It is a unmodified Arch install that has a prepackaged setup, so you get a running desktop very easily and get the full.power and configurability of Arch

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hate to admit it but perhaps it is not such a bad advice...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For my personal curiosity, how on Earth did you end up uninstalling lightdm and using startx? Did you follow a tutorial? Where do you even get this kind of advice?

For future reference what you did is not for beginners and it would have messed up any distro. It has nothing to do with Manjaro.