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

[John Talbut]

On 24/05/14 15:27, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> 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
>
It's a bit complicated, so I am attaching a picture of the screen output 
of ps -e -f

Regards

John
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