Problem with "lightdm"

[xtnager]

Good Morning
I've installed kali linux on virtualbox and i've used it normally without problems.

Today i've launch a full-upgrade and after that upgrade and reboot the VM i cant get GUI anymore every time i open it shows CLI on tty1
i've tried to remove ligthdm and reinstall it , i've tried to install gdm3, i've tried many things but its the same problem
every time i check
systemctl status lightdm
it show failed with exit-code

can any one help me please


sorry for my bad English
best regards

[kunwark]

Is this problem fixed ? going through same issue

[mcrabb]

I have the same issue after an upgrade. the new version of libglib2.0 seems to have broken a few things lightdm-gtk-greeter seat0-greeter.log
libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_memdup2 and I think this is also may also be related to an issue with xorg x-0.log MESA-LOADER: failed to open bochs-drm:. I have removed and re-installed lightdm which did not fix the issue.

[HillSonMX]

Good Morning
I've installed kali linux on virtualbox and i've used it normally without problems.

Today i've launch a full-upgrade and after that upgrade and reboot the VM i cant get GUI anymore every time i open it shows CLI on tty1
i've tried to remove ligthdm and reinstall it , i've tried to install gdm3, i've tried many things but its the same problem
every time i check
systemctl status lightdm
it show failed with exit-code

can any one help me please


sorry for my bad English
best regards

Hi guy !! I was in same issues and find the solution !! it is not about lightdm, is about xorg config, I did a post but still not autorized by admin so i will copy paste here.

uname -a

Linux kali 5.16


I just did normal update process with

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean

now

uname -a

Linux kali 5.17


and can not start normally ( black screen just after kali logo ) but still I can go to TTY (ctl+alt+(F1..F3)
I check some log file, and you can see tell is something wrong with lightdm and tty process and finally Xorg log point me to a solution.

/home/<user>/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

xorglog.JPGsystemctl.JPGjournal.JPGjournal.jpg








then cheking other forum find a solution could be forcing X to use fbdev driver and provinding the framebuffer device ID by:


Create the .conf file:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/fbdev.conf

Edit it:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "fbdev"
        BusID       "PCI:0:8:0"
EndSection

Please mind that your BusID might be different.


You can check it with: (if exist)

cat /root/xorg.conf.new

or you can just run

Xorg -configure

which will create /root/xorg.conf.new. Then look in this file for your BusID and act accordingly if it differs




(some credit to this post !!)


HAPPY FIXING !!!