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fabien

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Registered: 2019-03-11

Posts: 13  

Display manager issue

Hello people,

I have a issue with display manager in general, doesn't matter which one. They all freeze, maybe one time out of five.

I tried slim, sddm and lightDM, the problem is the same.

When it happen, If I open an other TTY and then "startx", my session open and freeze as well.

Which information should I give you if I want help?

Thank you.

Fabien

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 3,316  

Re: Display manager issue

Have you read the Release Notes?  Plenty of tips in there that might help you sort this.  Those notes are for ascii.  I guessed because you didn't specify which release you were on.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-24

Posts: 3,125  

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Re: Display manager issue

If I open an other TTY and then "startx", my session open and freeze as well.

Well then it can't be a display manager issue, can it?

Boot to a console and try startx from there to eliminate the DM as a source of this issue.

Have you checked your drive & memory health?

What are your sources?

apt policy

Check the syslog for any clues.

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Excalibur

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Registered: 2019-03-07

Posts: 15  

Re: Display manager issue

Hello,
       It looks like X11 is having problems with your hardware. As you have managed to start up an X session using startx, try logging on via a tty and see if there is an .xsession-errors file in your home directory. The contents of this file may give you a clue as to what has gone wrong.

fabien

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Registered: 2019-03-11

Posts: 13  

Re: Display manager issue

Thank you for helping guys, I will first read the release notes.

F_Sauce

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From: Noreg

Registered: 2017-07-07

Posts: 87  

Re: Display manager issue

Just a thought, but I would do a «memtest» to see if the RAM is alright also.