Lightdm auto login

Troubleshooting
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Hi

So I have installed dietpi on my rpi4 for the first time and installed LXDE via dietpi-software.

I set the auto start in dietpi-config to LigtDM Automatic login

As it boots up it shows the tty1 screen where it shows the IP address and says “Please hit to log in”, the problem is, it stays on this screen for some time before loading the DE. Seems that it is slowing the boot process up because it doesn’t appear to be doing anything when its on this screen.

Is this expected behavior? if so, is there a way to speed this process up or skip the tty1 screen entirely?

Thanks

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I guess same as this one Booting on Pi4 Mate - this now has a 1,5 minute delay

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Hmm, this was the solution, right? Looks like something we need to implement into dietpi-software when X11 is installed:

echo -e 'Package: src:lightdm\nPin: origin archive.raspberrypi.com\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/dietpi-lightdm
apt update
apt install --reinstall --allow-downgrades lightdm
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Hey guys! yes, you were right. it was dev-dri-renderD128.device and dev-dri-card0.device that were holding up the boot.

Downgrading lightdm worked

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Just weird that RPi’s own LightDM package fails on RPi :thinking:.