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steelcowboy

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2014-09-04

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[SOLVED] DM: Start request repeated too quickly

After a recent system upgrade, I rebooted my Acer C720 Chromebook to it barking at me about LXDM failing. I looked around, tried startx (which succeeded as root, it doesn't work as a user for me), downloaded and tried GDM which also fails. The exact message I get from systemctl status is:

start request repeated too quickly for *dm.service

I'm a bit stuck. I've looked through the logs, found that the lxdm in /usr/bin had a reference to execute from /usr/sbin -- changing that had no effect. GDM has the same issue. I'd guess it's got something to do with X, but I'm not sure where to start looking. Any ideas? Thanks!

Last edited by steelcowboy (2014-12-11 16:29:18)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] DM: Start request repeated too quickly

After a recent system upgrade

Was LXDM upgraded?

If so, does downgrading it restore the functionality?

Are there any messages from journalctl?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Journalctl#Journal

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steelcowboy

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2014-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] DM: Start request repeated too quickly

Yeah, I looked through the logs and it said something about failing to execute /usr/sbin/lxdm

I modified the service to run /usr/bin/lxdm (although sbin doesn't create problems on my other Arch machines)

Not expecting it to work, I got gdm to work (had to create a gdm user, oddly). Then I tried lxdm again and now it works. Not sure what fixed it, but it seems to work now. Thanks!

steelcowboy

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2014-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] DM: Start request repeated too quickly

Problem just happened on another of my systems, I did changed /usr/sbin to /usr/bin in both:
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
/usr/bin/lxdm

After that, LXDM worked just fine. Hope this helps!