Hello Siddhartha, Out of my personal experience, use can try the following command to activate the login prompt: (from another tty or ssh, etc.) sudo systemctl restart getty@tty1.service Hope that helps :) Best, Yen Chi Hsuan On 16 April 2015 at 13:01, Siddhartha <sh.siddhartha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > sddm/lightdm works properly, but if I stop the sddm/lighdm service > (systemctl stop sddm), tty1 (where it was started) goes blank with a > blinking cursor instead of exiting cleanly and showing the login > prompt. > > Can someone help me debug this? > > Thanks, > Siddhartha >