failed to start light display manager

[derwana]

on Thinkpad Edge 330 with 16GB RAM and SATA-HDD on first boot after install: failed to start light display manager

conf-file:

# Arch Linux Install Script (alis) configuration file
#
# Some values are preceded by a ! character, this means that the value is ignored.
# Some keys accept a single value others accept multiple values as annotated in the comments.

# init
KEYS="es"
LOG="false"

# partition
DEVICE="/dev/sda !/dev/nvme0n1 !/dev/mmcblk0" # sata nvme mmc (single)
DEVICE_TRIM="true" # If DEVICE supports TRIM
LVM="true" # True if use LVM for partitioning
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD="password" # LUKS encryption key, if LVM will be user LVM on LUKS. Empty for not use LUKS/encryption. Warning: change it!
PARTITION_ROOT_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"
FILE_SYSTEM_TYPE="ext4 !btrfs !xfs" # (single)
SWAP_SIZE="!2GiB !4GiB !8GiB" # (single, not supported in btrfs)

# network_install
WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
WIFI_ESSID="ssid"
WIFI_KEY="password"
WIFI_HIDDEN="true"
PING_HOSTNAME="mirrors.kernel.org"

# install (precede with ! for not install)
PACMAN_MIRROR="https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/\$repo/os/\$arch"
KERNELS="!linux-lts !linux-lts-headers !linux-hardened !linux-hardened-headers !linux-zen !linux-zen-headers" # Additional kernels and headers (multiple)
KERNELS_COMPRESSION="!gzip !bzip2 !lzma !xz !lzop !lz4"

# config
TIMEZONE="/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid"
LOCALE="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
LANG="LANG=de_DE.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en"
KEYMAP="KEYMAP=de-latin1"
FONT=""
FONT_MAP=""
HOSTNAME="ThinkPadE330"
ROOT_PASSWORD="password" # Root user password. Warning: change it!
ROOT_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"

# user
USER_NAME="cw"
USER_PASSWORD="password" # Main user password. Warning: change it!
USER_PASSWORD_RETYPE="password"
ADDITIONAL_USER_NAMES="" # list separated by space
ADDITIONAL_USER_PASSWORDS="" # list separated by space

# bootloader
BOOTLOADER="grub !refind !systemd" # (single)

# desktop
DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT="!gnome !kde xfce !mate !cinnamon !lxde" # (single)
DISPLAY_DRIVER="intel !amdgpu !ati !nvidia !nvidia-lts !nvidia-dkms !nvidia-390xx !nvidia-390xx-lts !nvidia-390xx-dkms !nouveau" # (single)
KMS="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_DDX="false"
VULKAN="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION="false"
DISPLAY_DRIVER_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_INTEL="!intel-media-driver !libva-intel-driver" # (single)

# packages (all multiple)
PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET="firefox !chromium !apache !nginx !curl !wget !filezilla !sshfs !openssh !transmission-gtk !transmission-qt !amule !geary !thunderbird !empathy !kopete !polari !konversation !liferea !hugo !gnome-boxes"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA="!gthumb !gimp !imagemagick !krita !inkscape !blender !cmus !vlc !easytag !ardour !audacity !ffmpeg !gnome-phone-manager !kdeconnect !gstreamer !gst-plugins-good !gst-plugins-bad !gst-plugins-ugly bluez bluez-utils"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES="!gnome-initial-setup !code !eclipse-java !intellij-idea-community-edition !gradle !maven !lz4 !meld !dosfstools ntfs-3g !exfat-utils"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!libreoffice-fresh !calligra !discount !lyx !vim !calibre"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY="!rsync !gnupg !keepassxc"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE="!geogebra !octave"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS="!klavaro !tmux"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER="!jdk-openjdk !python !dotnet-sdk !php !rust !go !virtualbox !docker !ansible !vagrant"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM=""

AUR="!yay !aurman"

PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET="!dropbox"
PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA=""
PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES=""
PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!wps-office"
PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY="!freefilesync"
PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE=""
PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS="!gnucash"
PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER=""
PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM=""

PACKAGES_PACMAN="$PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET $PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM"
PACKAGES_AUR="$PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET $PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY $PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS $PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM"

#reboot
REBOOT="true" 

I have read some threads on the bbs, people there reported issues with xfce and lightdm. Common suggestion is to use lxdm instead.

[picodotdev]

Should be fixed.

Now LightDM requires to install xorg-server package explicitly.