[Cialug] requesting help for troubleshooting

[Eyüp Hakan Duran]

David: You mean keeping the system on login screen (sddm/runlevel
5/graphical.target) with Nouveau instead of nvidia/runlevel
3/multi-user.target to compare the stability over time? Hmm, I haven't
thought about this option, which is a pretty good idea. Thank you for
suggesting it. Will definitely try.

Hakan

David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>, 18 Eki 2018 Per, 23:14 tarihinde
şunu yazdı:

> 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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