setting an invalid greeter makes lightdm say that you are in low graphics mode
Bug #971891 reported by
Matt Fischer
This bug affects 12 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
xdiagnose |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In the process of experimenting with a new greeter, I mistyped the greeter name. When I did this and restarted lightdm, lightdm throws up a screen saying I'm in low graphics mode "Your screen, graphics card, and input device settings could not be detected correctly". At this point, none of the options provided works. I double checked my lightdm conf file and caught the error, but this is a confusing and incorrect message in this specific case.
See screen cap attached.
To repro, edit lightdm.conf and set "greeter-
I'm running lightdm 1.1.9-0ubuntu1
Changed in lightdm: | |
status: | Triaged → New |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Opinion |
status: | Opinion → Invalid |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in xdiagnose: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
status: | Invalid → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
no longer affects: | lightdm (Ubuntu) |
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Matt, you keep finding all the bugs we like to pretend don't exist :)
Yeah, we need a way of providing some information to failsafe X as to why lightdm didn't start. The solution to this will probably have to be failsafe X scanning the log files for some known regexps and using those to suggest to the user why the problem existed.