Raspberry Pi 5 not booting into desktop after installing dhcpcd
June 2, 2024, 16:01
After installing dhcpcd on the pi it doenst show the desktop screen when booting, instead it boots headless with a bunch of lightdm errors, how can this be caused by dhcpcd? Everything else works fine except for some DNS issues wich I dont need help with
I have been struggeling together with the help of chatgpt for a whole day now
when doing startx it loads a desktop but not the correct pi one
Here you can see the errors and the way it boots
Have you tried running systemctl status lightdm.service as the error log suggests?
yes, ill upload a photo of it
Not an expert, but it seems to suggest there are missing dependencies
My project is as follows: I boot the pi wich creates an accespoint and connects to wifi with wlan0 and wlan1. Then I want to remotly connect with vnc to the pi.
Did you remove any software lately?
To make the ap work I use dhcpcd wich is well known and popular. Is strange that installing this causes to boot in cmd
Nope, freshly started project today
Everything works except for the fact that it boots headless because of lightdm errors
I'd probably start with running apt update and upgrade
Haha
Thx
There's a few similar cases if you search for lightdm.service "triggering onfailure= dependencies"
Other threads suggested reinstalling lightdm
Which seems drastic
Yea, im prob gonna try to do this project without dhcpcd since this causes the problem
<@318815328127942658> fixed it, I just set everything up without dhcpcd, its now even working better then before!!
Glad to hear! Wonder what the heck happened with dhcpcd there to make it mess up so spectacularly? Oh well
I guess we never know haha
Now I can take this second mini computer somewhere power it up and vnc into it while having internet acces at the same time, awesome! No idea what to do with it but its still awesome!
I didnt read through the whole chat, but I've been having issues with dhcpcd as well.
Found out it there were multiple constraints (incomplete versions, netconfig issues, conflicting configurations)
kind of just disabled it and had nm handle the DHCP client
Glad to hear it's working for you!
<@529518678937698305> I had so many issues with dhcpcd! Now that I removed it and let NetworkManager do its thing it worksflawless! Crazy that it can cause so much trouble!
Yep, NM is awesome!