Login greeter fails to start automatically

[bradnag]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to upgrade the kernel 5.15.161 and I made mistake running

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slackpkg upgrade-all

instead

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slapt-get -u && slapt-get --upgrade

as usually do and right now the login manager does not automatically starts. I need to startx from tty console.
I reinstalled lightdm* but no success.
How can I restore the greeter prompt?

Thanks a lot!

[gapan]

Why would you use slackpkg?

https://docs.salixos.org/faq/slackpkg/

Now you must undo the damage. You will be lucky if all it takes is to run

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sudo slapt-get--update
sudo slapt-get --upgrade

[bradnag]

I know was foolish, I noticed was a Firefox upgrade and were no kernel upgrades so I thought will be no damages. I got kernel panic probably because it changed to generic from huge, I fixed the boot by login does not start auto.

Now the firmware is trying to install the previous version and successfully fail every time.

[gapan]

You got a kernel panic? So you can't boot at all?

It would certainly be possible to fix it if you knew how. But at this point, it would probably be easier and less time consuming to just reinstall from scratch.

[bradnag]

the kernel panic was not a problem, I fixed the boot, thanks

[gapan]

So, is there still a problem?

[bradnag]

yes, with the login greeter, does not start automatically. I have to login and startx and then all is good

[gapan]

Check the contents of the /etc/inittab file. The default runlevel should be set to 4, like this:

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# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

[bradnag]

completely forgot about that thank you! Hopefully!

[bradnag]

yes, inittab level was 3. Changed to 4. Thanks so much!