Lost GUI after update

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Hello Kaisens,

So for some reason gui has vanished after my last update. Naturally, I’ve searched the forum and came across this post:

However, no luck.

Just before, desktop notifications started to appear in some kind of an arabic font and some of the icons from the main desktop panel have disappeared. I wonder if that had anything to do with it.

I can login as usual, specifying credentials, however it’s just CLI afterwards.

startx doesn’t work.

Please help. Thank you.

Rei.

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Hello,

Can you please join an output of :

sudo systemctl status lightdm
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Hello Niki,

● lightdm.service - LSB: Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/lightdm; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Wed 2023-05-10 10:33:59 EDT; 10min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 884 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/lightdm start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 2ms

May 10 10:33:59 t937 systemd[1]: Starting lightdm.service - LSB: Light Display Manager…
May 10 10:33:59 t937 systemd[1]: Started lightdm.service - LSB: Light Display Manager.

I am under the impression that it’s Missing X server or $DISPLAY scenario, but not sure what’s the best way to go about it.

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@chyrei ,

Can you try this combo :

Ctrl + Alt + F7

Also, try to run

sudo kaisen-update

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Also,

What was your graphical environnement ?

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Ctrl + Alt + F7 doen’t do anything.
sudo kaisen-update was done prior to the GUI collapsing. Did it again just now to the same result.
I was running KDE before that.

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What does

sudo apt install kaisen-kde

?

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It’s asking to select default display manager: lightdm or sddm.

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So select lightdm

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It’s back on, thank you Niki.

I am however puzzled a little why it went away after the update.

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Glad the problem is fixed.

I am sorry I can not find out why you lost you GUI.

Have a nice evening