[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#731220: Bug#731220: lightdm: Uninstall error

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2013-12-04 at 13:44 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> On 04/12/13 11:07, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On mer., 2013-12-04 at 09:51 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> >> Package: lightdm
> >> Followup-For: Bug #731220
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how to get more info. At the time I was logged into
> >> an XFCE4 session, if that helps.
> > Which might not be the perfect idea, since actually stopping lightdm
> > when someone is logged in through lightdm might have unexpected results.
> 
> Perhaps the task of deleting the lightdm user could be postponed to the
> next shutdown or startup, similar to what happens when updating MS
> Windows, and at the same time advise the user to restart X or the OS as
> soon as possible?

That's not really possible actually, not easily at least. I've added a
warning on the postrm script to warn user if the deletion failed, like
it's done in gdm3.
> 
> >> Here is what I have found in the
> >> log files:
> >
> > What I'm interested in is the terminal output from when you actually
> > remove lightdm.
> 
> I don't have access to that anymore, but I think I copied all the
> relevant output into the original report (can't be 100% sure, of course).

No, that's why I asked.
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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