On a fresh TW install and clean zypper dup (installation completely up to date), I use update alternatives to switch the displaymanager/windowmanager to wdm/windowmaker. Upon doing so, systemctl start displaymanager does not complete and session will time-out after a few minutes. Here are details of the installation; ## uname -a # Linux [] 4.20.7-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 7 07:16:45 UTC 2019 (730812f) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ## zypper dup # Loading repository data... # Reading installed packages... # Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are # compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. # Computing distribution upgrade... # # Nothing to do. Here is the details of the change to displaymanager/windowmanager; ## update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager #There are 6 choices for the alternative default-displaymanager (providing /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager). # # Selection Path Priority Status #------------------------------------------------------------ # 0 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm 25 auto mode # 1 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console 5 manual mode # 2 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm 25 manual mode # 3 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/lightdm 15 manual mode # 4 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm 25 manual mode #* 5 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/wdm 10 manual mode # 6 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm 10 manual mode # #Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 5 Here is the output from journalctl and systemctl -l status displaymanager.service. ## systemctl -l status displaymanager.service #display-manager.service - X Display Manager # Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/display-manager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) # Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2019-02-17 15:09:37 GMT; 4min 9s ago # Process: 2592 ExecStart=/usr/lib/X11/display-manager start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) # Tasks: 7 (limit: 4915) # Memory: 127.3M # CGroup: /system.slice/display-manager.service # ├─2671 /usr/bin/wdm # ├─2673 /usr/bin/wdm # ├─2676 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7 -keeptty -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-iKlpYk # └─2753 -:0 # #Feb 17 15:08:07 espejo display-manager[2592]: Command: localectl set-keymap uk #Feb 17 15:08:08 espejo display-manager[2592]: I: Using systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping #Feb 17 15:08:08 espejo root[2622]: /etc/init.d/xdm: No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers #Feb 17 15:08:08 espejo root[2622]: /etc/init.d/xdm: No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config #Feb 17 15:08:08 espejo display-manager[2592]: Starting service wdm..done #Feb 17 15:08:08 espejo systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Can't open PID file /var/run/displaymanager.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory #Feb 17 15:09:37 espejo systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. #Feb 17 15:09:37 espejo systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. #Feb 17 15:09:37 espejo systemd[1]: Failed to start X Display Manager. #Feb 17 15:09:37 espejo systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies. Beyond noting that the service fails to write /var/run/displaymanager.pid, I cannot spot the problem. Any advice is welcome and as always apologies if I am missing something obvious. Best, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org