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gameslayer

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Registered: 2021-12-14

Posts: 81

lightdm is broken

Hi I just wanted to get some help, I have xfce4 but lightdm refuses to start the display manager so I had to switch to lxdm but the issue with that is I don't have proper screen timeout control and it will timeout so I had to install xscreensaver and try and configure it that way even tho I disabled it all in the screen settings

Dec 24 02:59:25 Fujitsu-Laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
░░ Subject: A stop job for unit lightdm.service has finished
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A stop job for unit lightdm.service has finished.
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░░ The job identifier is 1651 and the job result is done.
Dec 24 02:59:25 Fujitsu-Laptop systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 24 02:59:25 Fujitsu-Laptop systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit lightdm.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 24 02:59:25 Fujitsu-Laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 1651 and the job result is failed.

gameslayer

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Registered: 2021-12-14

Posts: 81

Re: lightdm is broken

Can anyone help with this at all?

levi

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Registered: 2018-06-16

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Re: lightdm is broken

I don't use lightdm these days, I start my lxdeish openbox session by issuing startx from the terminal.  And I don't quite understand the timeout issues you're having, are you saying the screen blanks after a time and won't come back even if you wiggle the mouse.? That's unexpected, but if it's doing that I doubt installing xscreensaver would help.

Last edited by levi (2022-01-09 07:36:43)

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abaumann

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Registered: 2019-11-14

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Re: lightdm is broken

The systemd journal will show some errors, most likely not fullfilled library dependencies.
Also an ldd(tree) on /usr/lib/lightdm would show those.

I tested lightdm yesterday and it worked for me, so this is either an old problem or a new
problem since yesterday. :-)