Not letting me login

General system Newbie
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oh, I made a typo it should be sudo rm ~/.Xauthority. I missed . in front of the file name.

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the only thing that is different on my Lenovo laptop is this curly dash (~) here on mac it types exactly as you wrote but there on my Lenovo it types it as if it is a superscript does that make a difference?

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ok did it seems like it worked but did not show anything just command was returned. I checked it not not in the list anymore

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I don’t think so.

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Do a restart and see. Hope fully it works.

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nope this time it was a little better that i saw the desktop then it went back to the login screen.

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Now again it is doing the same thing over and over again, not letting me in… :rage:

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Thank you for your continued support…

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This is from Arch wiki.

Another reason for this may be that you tried to recreate your “lightdm.conf” from scratch and your version is missing this line:

session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

In that case, lightdm tries to use “lightdm-session” as the session-wrapper which does not exist on Arch Linux.

Check the mentioned line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. You can use sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. If the line says something else adjust the line to match session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession. Press Ctrl + O and Enter to save then Ctrl + X or Z (can’t remember the letter you’ll see it on the UI) to exit. Reboot and try again.

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GNU nano 5.8 opened and it is blank

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This not login issue is related to a buggy xorg-server. There is a new one, xorg-server-1.20.12-2 which fixes this bug.

See: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71483

So, just refresh your package index and install xorg-server-1.20.12-2.

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how do i do that? i went to the link and it has two files one .txt and other .log
no idea what to do with them

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No, you have to use pacman.

I think the command is sudo pacman -Syu xorg-server (correct me if I’m wrong).

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does this replace the DM? If yes then I have tried that and it did not help

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I should just type this in the terminal?

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No, it just updates the xorg-server which is the system display server. Which has gotten a new update today according to the post by @FredBezies.

Yes.

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it did upgrade, and then asked me to reboot which i did but the issue still persists. Quite unbelievable

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Ook, I’m out of solutions. You’re trying to install EnOS i3 community version right?

Just try the offline version which ships with XFCE.

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I just clicked on the first option which said start install. Below that i see there is an option to install community edition. I am not sure if you are talking about that. Now I have started the installation again but this time as you suggested i went with offline. Just one question, would I be able to install the i3 tile window manager later?

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Are you sure you have xorg-server 1.20.12-2?

If you enter pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Version, do you have something like this?

pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Version
Version                  : 1.20.12-2

If not, maybe your mirror is not up to date.