[solved] Login through lightdm fails after restart

lykwydchykyn · 2013-09-09 18:33:39

My arch system uses lightdm to login to awesome WM. I hadn't rebooted in some time, but did so today and now when I try to log in using lightdm the session appears to crash and kick me back to the login screen.

If I login at a TTY and do startx, the session starts with no problems and everything works.

.xsession-errors just has one error saying the file could not be found.

I've installed openbox just to see if this is specific to awesome, but it gives the same error. For some reason lightdm can't find the executables.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by lykwydchykyn (2013-09-09 19:07:24)

karol · 2013-09-09 18:38:02

Maybe it's related to the recent changes in lightdm https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169538

lykwydchykyn · 2013-09-09 19:06:50

Well, I deleted my config and replaced it with the .pacnew version and it's all happy now. Go figure.

karol · 2013-09-09 19:10:40

Always take care of .pacnew files after the update.
Usually you need to merge .pacnew files, not just delete the old file and use the new one instead, but maybe in this case it's OK.

milouse · 2013-09-11 00:17:37

The exact line which may hang lightdm in the new config file is the following :

session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

The script name move from xsession to Xsession. If you have done previous change to your lightdm.conf file, pacman creates the pacnew file during the update and at the following boot, lightdm will fail to load /etc/lightdm/xsession.

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#1 2013-09-09 18:33:39

[solved] Login through lightdm fails after restart

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Re: [solved] Login through lightdm fails after restart

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