[this appears to have been meant for the list]
On Vi, 10 dec 21, 20:25:26, Thanos Katsiolis wrote:
> > Yes, it's possible, e.g. in case there was a conflict and APT decided it
> > > should remove remove your Desktop Environment to resolve the conflict.
> >
> > > This should be visible in the logs or just try running:
> >
> > > dpkg -l '*dm'
> >
> >
> The output out the command is Desired =Unknown/Install/Remove?Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/half-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status, Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/Name Version Architecture Description
> un mdadm <none> <none> (no description available)
>
> Which means that there is no Desktop Environment installed
More precisely, no Display Manager (DM). Even if you do have a Desktop
Environment installed, the DM is responsible for automatically starting
it.
Please try to log in on the console and run:
startx
If you do get a Desktop Environment (which one?) most likely all you
need is to install a DM. For Gnome you probably want GDM (package
'gdm').
> > Alternatively (and more likely) Xorg is failing to start for some
> > reason.
> >
> > > Anything interesting in the output of `journalctl -ab`,
> > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log?
> >
> >
> journalctl -ab /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> returns Couldn't cannonicalize path : No such file or directory
>
> as well as ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log?
Apologies, that should have been clearer, I meant: please post the
output of:
journalctl -ab
(requires root or sudo to get useful output)
as well as the *contents* of /var/log/Xorg.0.log or
~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (whichever exists).
Since you don't have a DM installed these are only useful if the Desktop
Environment fails to start.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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