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Kebertx

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 69

[SOLVED?] LightDM has stopped starting!

systemd-journald[119]:Failed to write entry, ignoring: Argument list too long

During boot, or when I try to manually systemctl start lightdm, I get that^ instead of a login screen. That's with lightdm Version : 1:1.6.0-7 (updated last Monday), and systemd Version: 204-3.

I've googled around, but haven't been able to find what causes this error. There doesn't seem to be a bug on launchpad related to this, so I'm wondering if this is Arch specific, or only effects computers running systemd.

I've just been logging in and running startx manually for the past week, and that causes no problems, but it does get annoying. If anyone has any idea what's going on, what I might fix, or what other information I should provide, please let me know! I'm just hoping to go back to normal before too long.

Thanks in advance for the advice!

EDIT: The problem has to do with the greeter I was using (pantheon-greeter-bzr). I switched to gtk3-greeter, and now it starts normally. I don't know why this is, but I can but the eOS people about it on Launchpad, instead of you guys.

Last edited by Kebertx (2013-09-02 20:39:52)