Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade
On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+0000), halbtaxabo-jnq@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright 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.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.
> ----cut here-----
Try installing accountsservice.
Cheers,
David.
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