[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#762211: Bug#762211: lightdm crashes on startup, system falls back to console

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

control: severity -1 important
control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible

On ven., 2014-09-19 at 16:37 +0200, Fabio Rosciano wrote:
> Package: lightdm
> Version: 1.10.2-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I cannot start lightdm on my system with Intel graphics since yesterday's
> upgrade from 1.10.1-3 to 1.10.2-1.
> The service fails with:
> 
> root at nostromo:~# systemctl start lightdm
> Job for lightdm.service failed. See 'systemctl status lightdm.service' and
> 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> root at nostromo:~# systemctl status lightdm.service
> ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2014-09-19 16:31:21 CEST;
> 1s ago
>      Docs: man:lightdm(1)
>   Process: 4253 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat
> /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/sbin/lightdm" ]
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> Sep 19 16:31:21 nostromo systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed
> state.
> Sep 19 16:31:21 nostromo systemd[1]: lightdm.service start request repeated
> too quickly, refusing to start.
> Sep 19 16:31:21 nostromo systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
> Sep 19 16:31:21 nostromo systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed
> state.

Can you try with invoke-rc.d lightdm restart ?
> 
> And invoking lightdm directly yields:
> 
> root at nostromo:~# lightdm
> *** Error in `lightdm': double free or corruption (fasttop):
> *** 0x00007f51a9ea1850 ***
> Aborted

Does it happen when downgrading to 1.10.1?
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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