Hello community,

I'm running Manjaro, and a couple of days ago, I updated my system and installed pipewire since I was having some audio issues (I needed to reconnect the audio devices for them to work). After reboot gdm won't longer launch on boot, and startx or gdm fails. Could you please help me debug this?

Here's Xorg.0.log, feel free to ask for any other information I can provide. Thank you!

https://justpaste.it/7mo4f

How did you update? With pacman? Are you partially updated? Does the journal from the failed attempt tell you anything?
Are you using a nvidia module that is compatible with the kernel that you are booting from?

Another words when you updated the kernel did you update nvidia that goes with it? (partial update?)

Or, did you have the /boot partition mounted when you updated?(Separate boot) That is where the kernel lives.

Hello Teck! Thank you for your reply.



I updated using "yay -Syy && yay -Syuu"

The update was completed with no issues.

After updating I installed manjaro-pipewire

After that I rebooted to see if my sound issues were resolved but I was greeted with a tty login, no X. Logged in the tty and ran startx but it fails to start, and the logs are the one that I uploaded.

I didn't modify any lines in the boot options for the modules. The boot partition is mounted when I updated, and when it updated it updated Kernel, and the nvidia packages corresponding to the kernel version.

You could try purging the proprietary graphics drivers to try the FOSS. This primer explains the non-proprietary options. If you get X and sound you'll know where the problem lies.

You said but did not say you rebooted after the update and before installing pipewire, thus you are now blaming pipewire.

It seems to me that the most likely cause is the nvidia driver which must have the module recreated for every kernel change.

I suggest you reinstall/recompile the nvidia driver while booted to text mode then reboot and see if that fixes it.

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