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I'm having the following problem on two machines which had Mageia 4 with the proprietary Nvidia driver.

The upgrade installed nvidia-current but the cards are no longer supported. I uninstalled these packages and installed the nvidia340 ones. On boot I get the starry splash screen but at the point where I should get the display manager it reverts back to the text virtual terminal.

If I log in as root and restart prefdm.service the Display Manager starts correctly and I can log in. I've captured the service status for prefdm and systemd-logind along with errors from Xorg.log.

For my work system this isn't too much of a problem (I reboot very rarely), for my home machine it's a pain as I have to manually restart prefdm every time.

Any pointers appreciated.

What display manager and what desktop environment do you use?
From your description, sounds like the same issue like mla had in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9885

Also please attach the output as root of

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journalctl -ab

before you restart prefdm.
From the logs you attached it's not clear what the issue is with prefdm or systemd-logind sadly.

Here's the complete log, I notice

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Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job prefdm.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Job prefdm.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job remote-fs.target/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Job remote-fs.target/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job time-sync.target/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: Job time-sync.target/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with preload.service/start
Aug 07 19:26:19 gilraen systemd[1]: tmp.mount: Directory /tmp to mount over is not empty, mounting anyway.


What display manager and what desktop environment do you use?
From your description, sounds like the same issue like mla had in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9885

I use the defaults, KDM and KDE.

Is this a dupe of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16260 then?

It's an issue with ordering cycles, so yes it's partly the same. I can only suggest to disable one of the affected services and try again to boot

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systemctl mask preload.service

That fixes the problem, thanks.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks