Bug#639984: lightdm: restart/reload fails if DISPLAY is set

2014-02-11 Thread Jens Reinsberger
Package: lightdm Version: 1.2.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #639984 Dear Maintainer, we were bitten by that in a real environment, too. And, Yves-Alexis, you were wrong when saying other login managers act equally. I agree that when the lightdm binary is started directly it should somehow be able to

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: lightdm: restart/reload fails if DISPLAY is set

2014-02-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Jens Reinsberger wrote: Nonetheless we were using the runlevel startup scripts to restart lightdm over a ssh connection which failed while other login managers (namely kdm) did not. That way you can restart remotely any display manager I know of without

Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Slavko
Package: lightdm Version: 0.9.2-3 Severity: normal While testing LightDM under virtual environment (VirtualBox) i was not able to restart the LightDM, while it tries to start Xephyr, which is missing. After installing Xephyr it fails with unknown option -novtswitch. The invoke-rc.d does report

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 13:07 +0200, Slavko wrote: Please, can someone confirm it in real environment? I can't, it works just fine. Why exactly do you want to use xephyr? Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 13:51 +0200, Slavko wrote: hi, Dňa Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:45:49 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org napísal: I can't, it works just fine. Why exactly do you want to use xephyr? i don't want to use xephyr, nor configure lightdm for use it, i only found it in

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 14:21 +0200, Slavko wrote: I agree... Now i tried restart from vbox console (VT) and it works. Then i try it via SSH with unset DISPLAY and it works too. It seems that problem is with SSH session with X-Forwarding enabled (DISPLAY=localhost:10.0). When i put:

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Slavko
hi, Dňa Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:45:49 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org napísal: I can't, it works just fine. Why exactly do you want to use xephyr? i don't want to use xephyr, nor configure lightdm for use it, i only found it in logs... regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:53:02 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org napísal: i don't want to use xephyr, nor configure lightdm for use it, i only found it in logs... It should work just fine, virtualbox or not. Does X work? I agree... Now i tried restart from vbox console (VT)

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:31:24 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org napísal: I think the support in lightdm is fine (it's actually useful), though it might be a little more documented. You should take care of your environment, and if you can't, you should use invoke-rc.d (and not

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 16:22 +0200, Slavko wrote: quote from my early email: invoke-rc.d lightdm restart seems it as the directly launched init script? Grmbl, so that means you need to take care of the environment cleaning yourself. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description:

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:26:20 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org napísal: On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 16:22 +0200, Slavko wrote: quote from my early email: invoke-rc.d lightdm restart seems it as the directly launched init script? Grmbl, so that means you need to take

Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: Bug#639984: [lightdm] restart/reload fails

2011-09-01 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 21:45 +0200, Slavko wrote: if the behavior the lightdm with the DISPLAY variable is proper, as you write, then it must be started in my local machine (as other X clients are doing), but it simply dies. But is not desired to start remote display manager on local machine