[Solved] "[OK] Reached target Graphical Interface" after login before getting booted back to the login screen
Hey all, semi-novice Linux user here.
I'm running EndeavourOS with KDE on a Lenovo with an Intel CPU and integrated GPU.
I was attempting to update my system today but kept getting the error referenced in this newsletter that I found after looking for the error online. I ran each command in the newsletter exactly as written and then rebooted my system.
After rebooting, I'm able to successfully get to the login screen and input my username/password but, instead of my desktop, logging in takes me to a command interface for about a second before reverting to the same login screen. The line in the title is the last entry shown in that command interface.
I've looked online for solutions but it doesn't seem like anyone with my same error is getting stuck on the login screen (most people seem to be stuck on Grub and are able to use e, ctrl+alt-F2, etc) and I'm just sorta lost on what to do at this point.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Thank you to MyNameIsRichard for your help. It turns out that I needed to install plasma-x11-session as I am still an x11 user and a recent update made it necessary to install this package manually.
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catloaf
in reply to Lord Goose • • •unperson [he/him]
in reply to Lord Goose • • •The problem is probably unrelated to the firmware, and caused by some other upgrade.
After experiencing the issue, you should be able to switch to a different tty with ctrl-alt-f6 (or any other f key), log in, and check
journalctl -b
for an error message. Edit: Use the End key or shift-G to scroll to the end of the journal.like this
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Lord Goose
in reply to unperson [he/him] • • •Successfully made it to a different tty with ctrl-alt-F5 and was able to run
journalctl -b
I'm not entirely sure what error I'm looking for here in particular so I'm taking a guess that "Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.XYZ' failed: The systemd unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.XYZ.service' could not be found." is the one I'm looking for (XYZ because there are a few of these such errors with just the XYZ changing between them).
Is this the same error you got?
Mordikan
in reply to Lord Goose • • •Lord Goose
in reply to Mordikan • • •Looks like those XYZs ended up being irrelevant to my situation (figured as much seeing as looking online didn't give me much information).
I needed to reinstall plasma-x11-session per a recent update since I still use x11.
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MyNameIsRichard
in reply to Lord Goose • • •pacman -Qs linux-firmware
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Lord Goose
in reply to MyNameIsRichard • • •MyNameIsRichard
in reply to Lord Goose • • •Arch Linux - News: Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
archlinux.orgLord Goose
in reply to MyNameIsRichard • • •MyNameIsRichard
in reply to Lord Goose • • •sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session
Lord Goose
in reply to MyNameIsRichard • • •It's fixed!! Thank you so much!
Side note: also going to subscribe to the Arch newsletter to avoid mishaps like this in the future.
MyNameIsRichard
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