On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 18:13:12 (+0000), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Saturday, 15 March 2025 at 15:41:37 WET, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Mar 2025 at 15:01:25 (+0000), halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com 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.
