I don’t know how I ganked it. Was trying to screw with config stuff to set up MPD because I’ve never done it before. Now I turn on the machine and it is missing the ly greeter. Instead, I type in my username and password and it gives me a terminal. I have no idea what to do now. Got me considering the nuclear option (wave a white flag and install over this drive with Debian).

Help?

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 days ago

    To add on to this, I’m pretty sure Ly changed their service, I remember seeing a message about it during my last system upgrade and having to enable the new one, though annoyingly it seems they didn’t mention it on their release notes, only during the update message.

    Anyway, from the wiki

    Two steps are reqired to start Ly at boot. First make sure to enable ly@ttyX.service, then disable getty@ttyX.service where X stands for a number from 1 to 6.

    • Cornflake@pawb.socialOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I was reading this on the Wiki and I couldn’t seem to get it to work. I did:

      sudo systemctl enable ly@ttyX.service sudo systemctl disable getty@ttyX.service

      But it didn’t work. Was I supposed to substitute the X for a number? Instead I just installed sddm and that got me back up and running.