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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:26:30
Message-Id: CAN0CFw3DWL6f1fc=un2AhEFPqkkwRxmeN6aYbF6+=ZG6-M6x5g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using lightdm? by Grant
1 [snip]
2 >> It stopped working.  I have the same problem described here:
3 >>
4 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395327
5 >>
6 >> It hangs with this from /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log:
7 >>
8 >> DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
9 >>
10 >> It does this on 2 of my systems but succeeds on the other.  The next
11 >> lines on the successful system are:
12 >>
13 >> DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
14 >> DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
15 >>
16 >> The fix described in the bug is to add dbus to use in /etc/init.d/xdm
17 >> but dbus is already in there.  dbus is currently started on all 3
18 >> systems.  Any ideas?
19 >>
20 >> - Grant
21 >
22 > This definitely has something to do with dbus but I can't put my
23 > finger on it.  I added dbus to the boot runlevel and lightdm came up
24 > fine after a reboot.  I removed dbus from all runlevels and rebooted
25 > it's still working.  I don't get it.  I rebooted many times this
26 > morning and it never worked once.
27 >
28 > - Grant
29
30 I'm sorry for cramming up the airwaves with this. lightdm works with
31 dbus in the default runlevel too. I think I just need to make sure
32 dbus starts before xdm. Can anyone suggest an /etc/init.d/xdm change
33 for this and should I file a bug?
34
35 - Grant