dm-tool not working

Rexilion · 2013-12-26 18:43:17

Hi everyone,

I just finished migrating from Gentoo (bye bye portage!).

I hit a snag that I cannot work-around: dm-tool does not work. When I do 'dm-tool switch-to-greeter', nothing happens. No errors, no nothing.

- I verified that polkit is working (lxpolkit)
- I'm using the proprietary nvidia blob
- Lightdm login manager
- Systemd (activated in pam as well)
- Dbus seems to be running

Gdmflexiserver does not work either .

karol · 2013-12-26 18:49:26

No idea what 'dm-tool switch-to-greeter' is supposed to be doing, but have you looked in the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … _switching

Rexilion · 2013-12-26 19:56:45

Thanks. The tool I'm trying to use is trying to do the same like the one your suggested. In fact, it's even on the same page you suggested.

However, executing both commands yields no result at all. I used to use gdmflexiserver by default as well. But I reckon this is the new way forward from now.

Nothing there as of why it does not work. Does it work for you??

karol · 2013-12-26 20:37:14

Rexilion wrote:

Thanks. The tool I'm trying to use is trying to do the same like the one your suggested. In fact, it's even on the same page you suggested.

It was just a guess, I though maybe you have to make the symlink first to make it work.

Rexilion wrote:

Does it work for you??

I'm not using lightdm.

Rexilion · 2013-12-26 21:19:35

Bummer, thanks for the attempt. One day I hope to explore the dbus system some more and see if I can figure these kind of issue's out on my own. The whole dbus idea is just one big black box right now. Frustrating. Ow well .

I'm surprised I'm the only one reporting this issue here. I reckon I have a relatively standard setup: base + lightdm + enlightenment. It must be something stupid I overlooked .

Raynman · 2013-12-26 21:51:01

Works fine for me (but I never use it). Running xmonad instead of enlightenment. I have an X session on vt1, so dm-tool launches a new lightdm greeter on vt2 (and the X session on vt1 gets locked while switching to this new greeter, but IIRC this requires something that responds to dbus signals from systemd-logind).

Last edited by Raynman (2013-12-26 22:00:12)

WonderWoofy · 2013-12-26 21:51:34

Maybe you should submit a bug about this. Then at least you might be able to get a definitive answer from those more dbus knowledgeable than yourself (and myself).

I have played around with lightdm in the past, but I always just edited the config file by hand and was never aware this dm-tool even existed. In fact, upon reading the title of this thread, I incorrectly assumed it was actually a device-mapper tool.

Rexilion · 2013-12-29 12:19:18

I just installed the exact same system + config on my laptop and there it worked. Trying again here, it worked as well.

I did some updates and modified my kernel (cleared the hotplug helper). Maybe that was it. All is very well now!

I still cannot believe why Arch feels faster than Gentoo since you compile everything on Gentoo by yourself. It's amazing and frustrating at the same time .

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