Package: lightdm Version: 1.10.1-3 Severity: normal kdm is the default dm here, and I just switched from systemd. When hunting various dm issues, I found that asking lightdm to start results in the following unexpected error (it does start as expected when set to be the default, however). It should surely check the default dm settings, like eg. xdm does, and does not even attempt to start.
# service lightdm start Job for lightdm.service failed. See 'systemctl status lightdm.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. # systemctl status lightdm.service lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since mer. 2014-09-24 21:13:26 CEST; 1min 55s ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Process: 8079 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/sbin/lightdm" ] (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 7122 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) sept. 24 21:13:25 home systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. sept. 24 21:13:25 home systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state. sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: lightdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: Stopping Light Display Manager... sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: lightdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. sept. 24 21:13:26 home systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lightdm depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii consolekit 0.4.6-4 ii dbus 1.8.6-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53 ii libc6 2.19-11 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.4-3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-5 ii libpam-systemd 208-8 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libxcb1 1.10-3 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.1-1 ii lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter] 1.8.5-1 Versions of packages lightdm recommends: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+7 Versions of packages lightdm suggests: pn accountsservice <none> ii upower 0.99.1-3 -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org