#947319 lightdm: fails during startup (no invite)

Package:
lightdm
Source:
lightdm
Description:
simple display manager
Submitter:
Jerome
Date:
2021-10-17 17:45:11 UTC
Severity:
important
#947319#5
Date:
2019-12-24 15:03:17 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Fresh install.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I never saw lightdm working since I installed the new system.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
I can't use the graphical environnement.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Enable graphical environnement.
#947319#10
Date:
2019-12-24 15:16:27 UTC
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I attached the last lines of my /var/log/syslog
#947319#15
Date:
2019-12-27 10:51:52 UTC
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control: severity -1 important

Hi Jérơme,

that directory should be created created by lightdm (see
https://sources.debian.org/src/lightdm/1.26.0-4/src/shared-data-manager.c/#L75
) so there's something fishy on your installation which doesn't happen
anywhere else.

Could you try to investigate why lightdm can't create it? Can you create it
yourself and see what happens?

Regards,
#947319#22
Date:
2019-12-27 20:44:59 UTC
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Hello.

I just created the below directory :
/var/lib/lightdm/data
which has :
- right rwx with user lightdm
- right r-x with group lightdm
- right r-x with other users

The error disappeared but lightdm start was stopped by a new message :
Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

Le 27/12/2019 à 11:51, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit :
#947319#27
Date:
2019-12-28 21:57:12 UTC
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I installed the accountsservice package and the latest error message disappeared (org.freedesktop.Accounts).

However lightdm still fails to start.
#947319#32
Date:
2019-12-28 22:14:52 UTC
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I installed the package upower but it still fails to start.

I reinstalled the lightdm package (apt install --reinstall) but it still fails to start.
#947319#37
Date:
2021-10-17 17:27:34 UTC
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To:
I have also seen this message in the lightdm log:

[+0.06s] WARNING: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

This went away when I installed accountsservice.

I believe that either lightdm itself or maybe the greeter package
should depend on accountsservice.


Regards, Phil.