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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 15 16:10:01 2025
    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?
    Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session, num lock is on. It never used to be. How can this be fixed?


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    serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp99434ff1yiv0432588090yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr">I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary AMD64 desktop running xfce and lightDM).</div><div dir="ltr">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?<br></div><div dir="ltr">Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session, num lock is on. It never used to be. How can
    this be fixed?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>

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  • From Richmond@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 17:00:01 2025
    "[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:

    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?
    Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session,
    num lock is on. It never used to be. How can this be fixed?

    As you were able to start X with startx, it looks to me like lightdm has
    failed to start X. Maybe it is running its own startup file? .xsession
    or .xprofile which is trying to run something or do something which is
    not there.

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  • From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 15 16:30:02 2025
    Am Samstag, 15. März 2025, 16:01:25 CET schrieb [email protected]:
    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? Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session, num lock is on. It never used to be.
    How can this be fixed?

    Looks like X is not starting. What graphics hardware do you have? If it is a NVidia card: Was the kernel module during upgrade compiled and installed?


    Did you also install the linux-headers for the kernel? (Needed for compiling kenel modules).

    Best

    Hans

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  • From David Wright@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 16:50:01 2025
    On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), [email protected] 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

    Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session, num lock is on. It never used to be. How can this be fixed?

    My desktops have always had this set in the BIOS/CMOS, Eg for a Dell:

    POST Behaviour

    Adapter Warnings enabled
    Numlock LED disabled
    Keyboard Errors disabled
    POST HotKeys F12 Boot Option Menu enabled
    Fastboot Thorough

    Cheers,
    David.

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  • From Eben King@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 20:00:01 2025
    On 3/15/25 11:01, [email protected] 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?
    Another annoyance is that after booting and starting the X session, num lock is on. It never used to be. How can this be fixed?

    Check https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17485

    If that fixes it once but not every time, xfce has a list of commands to
    run on startup.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 19:20:01 2025


    On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), [email protected] 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-----

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    On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:
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    <div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), <a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> wrote:<br>&gt; 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?<br><br>Perhaps check&nbsp; &nbsp;
    systemctl status display-manager.service<br><br>I ran : <span>sudo systemctl status display-manager.service &gt;out.txt</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>before typing startx.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>The
    contents of out.txt were:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>--- cut here---<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/
    systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; preset: enabled)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-03-15 17:05:38 WET; 1min 38s ago<br>&nbsp;Invocation: 90744993196344b4b14777576400eeb5<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    Docs: man:lightdm(1)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Main PID: 967 (lightdm)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tasks: 4 (limit: 14229)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Memory: 2.4M (peak: 2.9M)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CPU: 23ms<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&
    nbsp; CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; └─967 /usr/sbin/lightdm<br><br>Mar 15 17:05:38 cetus systemd[1]: Starting lightdm.service - Light Display Manager...<br>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<br>Mar 15 17:05:38 cetus systemd[1]: Started
    lightdm.service - Light Display Manager.<br>----cut here-----</div><div><br></div></div>
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  • From David Wright@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Mar 15 21:20:03 2025
    On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+0000), [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote:

    On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), [email protected] 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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