I make a minimal installation : XDM + IceWm-light I install lightdm-gtk-greeter and deps. I will configure the Display Manager with MCC. => MCC does not propose lightdm I copy the file /usr/share/X11/dm.d/29lightdm.conf (file from mageia 3) => MCC propose lightdm. I choose lightdm and I confirm =>Failure starting graphical display I tried with the configuration files of mageia 3, but it is always in failure.
IIRC lightdm was pretty broken until I started to do some changes to it. I guess this happened after mga2. What does /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log say?
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
I have not directory /var/log/lightdm, nor thus of file. On the other hand, in the log messages, I saw this: prefdm.service :main process exited, code=exited, status=1 prefdm.service: holdoff time over, sheduling restart Unit prefdm.service entered failed state These three lines are repeated several times I then checked the functioning of the script prefdm, by adding lines such as echo "$variable" > /home/georges/variable.txt I find $DISPLAYMANAGER = LIGHTDM $dm= LIGHTDM $preferred = /usr/bin/lightdm It seems to me nevertheless correct
I then made a try by using the package of cauldron. Here, lightdm display and I can choose a user. I give my password. But the connection is refused. In a root console, I visualize the logs of lightdm. lightdm.log : Started session 1620 with service 'lightdm', username, 'georges' Session 1620 got 1 message(s) from PAM Prompt greeter got 1 message(s) x-0-greeter.log: Failed to open sessions directory: Error opening directory '/usr/share/xsessions : no such file or directory
'/usr/sbin/chksession --generate=/usr/share/xsessions' as root might help with your issue with cauldron pkg.
(will do nothing other as this bug seems confusing)
Source RPM: (none) => lightdm
I have just made a new installation. I added the packages of cauldron: lightdm-1.4.0-6mga3, ligthdm-gtk-greeter-1.3.1-1mga3, libligthdm-gobject1_0-1.4.0-6mga3, accountservice-0.6.25-2mga3 With these packages, the functioning is correct. However, according to snapshot that I saw to ubuntu, it would miss: - 2 Icons, above on the right - the clock - the stop button
Summary: Lightdm does not work => Lightdm-1.0.11-1.mga2 does not work
Probably missing icon theme pkg. Try with gnome-icon-theme. Icon theme is also configurable in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.
Hello, Effectively, it is necessary to modify the lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file to obtain both icones. Seen the current problems with oxygen, I chose: - theme-name=Raleigh - icon-theme-name=Tango These themes exist automatically with Xfce. Therefore, the button Shutdown exists now. I think that it would be good of update to the new version of lightdm for mageia 2.
Keywords: (none) => TriagedCC: (none) => stormiAssignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa
As mga2 is near EOL I'm not going to devote much time to fix lightdm. Actually I'm closing this as OLD.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD