Vistaus [1] filed a deletion request for mdm-display-manager [2]: If MDM fails to load, like in my case, you're left with an unusable system 'cause they've disabled all tty's so you can't fix it easily. Therefore, I request that this package gets removed. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org//account/Vistaus/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org//pkgbase/mdm-display-manager/