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FS#48077 - [lightdm] desktop fails to start after login

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ken Milmore (octree) - Sunday, 07 February 2016, 19:25 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 07 February 2016, 20:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Logging in through lightdm fails to start desktop and returns immediately to login prompt.
Same behaviour occurs on both Xfce and KDE plasma desktops.
User .xsession-errors is empty after the failed login.

Cause seems to be as follows:
See the lightdm PKGBUILD, prepare() function, the patch to config file has recently been commented out.
This causes the upstream version of /etc/lightdm.conf to be installed, which does not appear to work.
Note that a user who has edited /etc/lightdm.conf locally may not notice the problem, as their old copy should be retained when upgrading.

Additional info:
Affects lightdm 1:1.16.7-2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install lightdm lightdm-1:1.16.7-2 with empty or unedited config in /etc/lightdm.
2. Attempt to log in to desktop from the lightdm prompt. Observe that the login fails.


This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Sunday, 07 February 2016, 20:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#48075 
Comment by Marten Lienen (cqql) - Sunday, 07 February 2016, 19:42 GMT
I, too, just ran into this. The problem is that the new default configuration uses an unknown script named `lightdm-session` instead of `/etc/lightdm/Xsession`.

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