[Cialug] requesting help for troubleshooting

[David Champion]

Maybe try the Nouveau open source driver instead of the nVidia driver and
see if it's more stable? If you're not doing any 3D accelerated stuff it
will probably be fine.

-dc

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:56 PM E. Hakan Duran <ehakanduran at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alright, I was able to solve the problem at least partially. Switching to
> graphical.target still doesn’t work. At least one reason for it is because
> whatever scripts are run during this switch, erase the /run/user/1000
> directory. That results in a non-existent XDG_RUNTIME_DIR system variable,
> which X server needs to launch. If I stay in multi-user.target (aka
> runlevel 3), and create this directory manually, assigning the right owner
> and permissions (700), then I can use the startx command to have a working
> X/KDE. SDDM is out of equation in this case, the command always launches
> KDE (I wonder where the setting for that is located), which is fine with
> me. These settings don’t change with reboot, and I am happy about it. If I
> want to launch sddm and be able to choose DE, then I have to switch to
> graphical.target and reboot. Just the sole existence of /run/user/1000
> directory (even manually creating it again after graphical.target scripts
> deleted them) is not enough for sddm to lead to a working X/KDE; only a
> reboot provides me with right order of the startup scripts in Manjaro KDE.
>
> This also proved to rule out graphic card driver as a contributor to the
> problem. I installed nvidia driver/module again, and it did not have any
> impact on behavior.
>
> I will keep the computer on multi-user.target state, since it is mostly
> meant to be a server and stays on 24 hours a day. I expect that this will
> minimize random freezes, since I suspect that X server may have something
> to do with them. When I need to use the computer as a workstation, I will
> simply issue a startx command.
>
> Man, things are getting more complicated over the years!
>
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