On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:16:36AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in > >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and > >> startx starts XFCE just fine. > [...] > > But, if you want to diagnose your display manager, first figure out > > which one you were trying to use. > > He said above that he expected the `slim` (aka SLiM) display manager.
Oh. I've never heard of that one. It's cruel and unusual to make a display manager that doesn't have the letters "dm" in its name. Doubly so if the name is a common English word. Following the hyperlinks to <https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/slim/filelist>, I can see that its systemd unit file is "slim.service". So, systemctl status slim journalctl -u slim dmesg | grep -i firmware less /var/log/Xorg.0.log cd /var/log && ls -lart | tail && less "whatever file is recently modified" etc.
