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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3fRAmsoAYtforQCYHSqwdG06cOsszKntsCkk9+=vmvpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw26goQm5W0Q0b7q6s769BDWhCx3X9UtDdH47GhuvzeuKw@mail.gmail.com>

>>>> Has anyone set up lightdm?  I'm using it with the default config file
>>>> but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log.  gdm works fine.
>>>>  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> I'm not using lightdm, but my understanding is that it's as minimalist
>>> as you can get while still technically using a display manager. Check
>>> into its configuration in /etc/config, etc. Find out exactly what it's
>>> using (launching) for an xinitrc.
>>>
>>> Also check out ~/.X*, and see if there are any user-local errors or logs of use.
>>
>> Thanks, got it working by recompiling udev as mentioned in the last
>> comment here:
>>
>> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/09/18/lightdm-on-gentoo-artwork-needed/
>>
>> - Grant
>
> It stopped working.  I have the same problem described here:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395327
>
> It hangs with this from /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log:
>
> DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
>
> It does this on 2 of my systems but succeeds on the other.  The next
> lines on the successful system are:
>
> DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
> DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
>
> The fix described in the bug is to add dbus to use in /etc/init.d/xdm
> but dbus is already in there.  dbus is currently started on all 3
> systems.  Any ideas?
>
> - Grant

This definitely has something to do with dbus but I can't put my
finger on it.  I added dbus to the boot runlevel and lightdm came up
fine after a reboot.  I removed dbus from all runlevels and rebooted
it's still working.  I don't get it.  I rebooted many times this
morning and it never worked once.

- Grant



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-18 21:11 [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm? Grant
2012-02-18 22:15 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-18 22:39   ` Grant
2012-02-21 18:04     ` Grant
2012-02-21 19:10       ` Grant [this message]
2012-02-21 19:25         ` Grant
2012-02-18 22:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2012-02-18 23:35   ` Michael Cook
2012-02-19  0:30     ` Grant
2012-02-19 11:23       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-19 19:23         ` Grant
2012-02-19 11:44       ` Mick
2012-02-19 21:00   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-02-19 22:57     ` Grant
2012-02-19 22:59     ` Michael Mol
2012-02-19 23:02       ` Grant
2012-02-20 18:08         ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-02-20 18:32           ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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