Open JakeGinesin opened 2 years ago
Hmm, that's weird. None of the updated packages should interfere with the login process neither to some backend web-greeter could use. Can you provide the full seat0-greeter log at /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
?
I got a similar error after my recent upgrade which appears to be related to the following when running lightdm --test-mode --debug
:
[+0.42s] WARNING: Could not create user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/dadams: Error creating directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/dadams: Permission denied
despite having the correct directory and permission layouts. Switching back to lightdm-gtk-greeter
also worked for me.
After my last
pacman -Syu
, this greeter would fail to log me in. Typing in my password and pressing enter would yield nothing except an error dumped into/var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
telling me:lightdm_greeter_authenticate: assertion 'priv->connected' failed
.Switching my greeter to
lightdm-gtk-greeter
fixed the issue. For reference, here are the packages that were upgraded from the aforementionedpacman -Syu
(ripped from/var/log/pacman.log
: