Public bug reported: After upgrading to 11.10, lxdm (LXDE) failed to start at boot making lubuntu enter directly to text-mode.
A couple of related bugs were filled (#854329, #854837, #694896) but none of them fixed my problem. After digging around I found that the upstart job /etc/init/lxdm.conf ran and stopped inmmediatly. A couple of weeks later (BTW, upstart debug log sucks!), I found that in this file there's a condition that checks the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager (line 28) and expects to found "/usr/sbin/lxdm". In my case, the content of the file was "lxdm" therefore the condition was not satisfied and lxdm failed to start (actually it was being forced to stop). After changing the content of /etc/X11/default-display-manager to "/usr/sbin/lxdm", lxdm (LXDE) started to work at boot time showing login screen as expected. I never changed /etc/X11/default-display-manager manually, so I guess that either that file is not set always with full path of executable or the upgrade process failed to update the file content properly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.24~ppa1~loms~oneiric-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jan 6 11:07:40 2012 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lxdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-01 (66 days ago) ** Affects: lxdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lxdm oneiric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912772 Title: lxdm (LXDE) not starting at boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/912772/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs