[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#730307: Refuse to start beacause of wrong options for X

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.8.5-1
Severity: grave



Here is my /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log :

[+0.02s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.8.5, UID=0 PID=4806
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Using Xephyr for X servers
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Registered seat module unity
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Registered seat module surfaceflinger
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Seat: Starting
[+0.31s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating greeter session
[+0.55s] DEBUG: Seat: Setting XDG_SEAT=seat0
[+0.55s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating display server of type x
[+0.55s] DEBUG: Seat: Starting local X display
[+0.74s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child
process "plymouth" (No such file or directory)
[+0.74s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Writing X server authority to
/var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.74s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Launching X Server
[+0.87s] DEBUG: Launching process 4812: /usr/bin/Xephyr :0 -auth
/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.87s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Waiting for ready signal from X
server :0
[+1.01s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+1.03s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path
/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Process 4812 exited with return value 1
[+2.47s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: X server stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+2.47s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Removing X server authority
/var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Display server stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping session
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Session stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+2.47s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping session
[+2.63s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+2.63s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1


Here is the beginning of my /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log :


 Unrecognized option: -novtswitch
 use: X [:<display>] [option]
 -a #                   default pointer acceleration (factor)
 -ac                    disable access control restrictions
 -audit int             set audit trail level
 -auth file             select authorization file
 -br                    create root window with black background
 +bs                    enable any backing store support
 -bs                    disable any backing store support
 -c                     turns off key-click
(Lots of crap cut)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (102, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                             0.4.6-3+b1
ii  dbus                                   1.7.6-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.52
ii  libc6                                  2.17-96
ii  libgcrypt11                            1.5.3-2
it  libglib2.0-0                           2.38.1-2
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.3-10
ii  libxcb1                                1.9.1-3
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.1-1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  1.6.1-3

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+4

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.34-2
ii  upower           0.9.17-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed:
[LightDM]
[SeatDefaults]
xserver-command=X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7
[XDMCPServer]
[VNCServer]


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm

-- debsums errors found:
sh: 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: not found

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