lightdm does not start
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
Under XUbuntu 20.04.
dist-upgraded my install yesterday. Since then, computer infinite loops on boot with message: "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up"
Thanks to:
https:/
I managed to get rid of the infinite loop
However, I now face a console login screen.
I tried to run lightdm manually (`/etc/
In the other hand, lxdm and gdm3 start with no problem.
Then, I remembered I used lightdm-
Thinking it might be a configuration pb, I purged lightdm and re-installed it. But same problem.
Any help appreciated. Running lxdm in the meantime...
```
# /etc/init.d/lightdm start
Starting lightdm (via systemctl): lightdm.serviceJob for lightdm.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status lightdm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
failed!
```
```
# systemctl status lightdm.service
● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-06-10 16:52:29 CEST; 46s ago
Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Process: 10618 ExecStartPre=
Process: 10621 ExecStart=
Main PID: 10621 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
juin 10 16:52:29 BAL157X-og systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
juin 10 16:52:29 BAL157X-og systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
juin 10 16:52:29 BAL157X-og systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
juin 10 16:52:29 BAL157X-og systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
juin 10 16:52:29 BAL157X-og systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
```
```# journalctl -xe``` output attached.