On mer., 2011-08-03 at 11:43 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 01 aug 11, 10:16:21, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On lun., 2011-08-01 at 11:04 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > I tried commenting out and also replacing it with > > > > > > user-session=x-session-manager > > > > > > but both resulted in same behaviour: lightdm just restarts. > > > > And can you try commenting it completely? > > Already did that, same result. > > > Can you try putting there a > > real session name? (something present in desktop files > > in /usr/share/xsessions). > > This works with "LXDE". Just for reference > > $ ls /usr/share/xsessions > LXDE.desktop > openbox.desktop > openbox-gnome.desktop > openbox-kde.desktop > ssh.desktop
Thanks. > > > LightDM has logs in /var/log/lightdm which may have information about > > this, too. > > Hmm > > $ ls /var/log/lightdm/ > ls: cannot open directory /var/log/lightdm/: Permission denied > > $ ls -ld /var/log/lightdm/ > drwx--x--x 2 root root 4096 iul 31 01:09 /var/log/lightdm/ > > Could you please make that rwxr-xr-x instead? Especially since > lightdm.log is world readable. Shall I attach a lightdm.log from a > failed attempt? Yes please. > > > Basically I guess it fails completely if the user-session > > doesn't exist. > > That explains it, but IMVHO it's not a good idea to have it so tied to > Xfce. Well, it won't be good with an empty session either. As I have to pick a choice and I maintain lightdm as the default login manager for Xfce, xfce is the best choice I have for now, until it behaves sanely. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org