[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#748917: Bug#748917: lightdm: fails to register a logind session

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Sat, 24 May 2014 15:47:29 +0200,
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> a écrit :

> On sam., 2014-05-24 at 14:39 +0100, John Talbut wrote:
> > On 24/05/14 13:55, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > On ven., 2014-05-23 at 21:53 +0100, John Talbut wrote:
> > >> Yes, libpam-systemd is installed.
> > >>
> > >> I installed systemd-shim and it made no difference.
> > >
> > > When  booting and lightdm is started (and before any attempt to
> > > login graphically), can you switch to a console tty, login as
> > > root and check if logind is running (the process would
> > > be /lib/systemd/systemd-logind from the systemd package)
> > >
> > In tty1 as root, ps -e -f includes the line:
> > 
> > root	3047	1 0 14:10 ?
> > 00:00:00	/lib/systemd/systemd-logind	
> > 
> > ps -rf only gives one line, for ps
> 
> So lightdm seems to correctly invoke logind, and I have no idea why it
> doesn't setup a session. In any case, I'm really not sure the problem
> lies in lightdm.

Could you also check by looking at the PID if logind is started before
or after the lightdm process?

Thanks,

Laurent Bigonville