This is solved by making unity-system-compositor depend on XMir. So you can't have the system compositor running without XMir available.
** Changed in: mir Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: mir Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Xubuntu Developers, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1204936 Title: if xorg exits too early, lightdm should retry starting xorg without -mir To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1204936/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev Post to : xubuntu-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp