[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#748944: Bug#748944: lightdm: Attempt to login fails to get past greeter

[James Lynn]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu., 2014-05-22 at 15:50 +0100, James Lynn wrote:
> > In case there was something running causing the problem, I tried
> > configuring lightdm to be the default dm and re-booting, which gave a
> > ligthdm greeter with the same symptoms.
> 
> Well I'm afraid I can't help you much here… You'll have to debug
> why /etc/X11/Xsession startxfce4 is failing here. It first tries to
> execute the script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d so you might want to take a
> look there.

Aha.

/etc/X11/Xsession was not executable. After making it executable,
lightdm now works.

Thanks.

-- 
James Lynn