Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), halbtaxabo-jnq@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.txt

before typing startx.

The contents of out.txt were:

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● 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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