lightdm does not start on boot since change to use plymouth-ready (precise)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Lightdm fails to start on boot up, resulting in a blank screen.
Lightdm can be started manually from tty1, for example, after the machine has been booted up.
If the default browser is set to gdm, then gdm starts up on boot.
This problem first arose immediately after upgrade to 3.2.0-45-generic (from 3.2.0-44) in Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
I have tried, to no avail,
1. Moving etc/X11/xorg.conf to a backup
2. uninstalling unity-greeter, lightdm, lightdm-gobject-1-0
3. deleting /etc/lightdm and /var/lib/lightdm
4. rebooting and reinstalling unity-greeter, lightdm, lightdm-gobject-1-0
5. Adding the line "sleep 2" immediately before "exec lightdm" in /etc/init/
6. Checking that /etc/X11/
After reinstalling all the above it was necessary to change ownership of .Xauthority from root to my userid, to
allow lightdm to accept a password. After this lightdm still works but still does not start up on boot.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.2.3-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-45-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 6 11:35:30 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-29 (403 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.