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felixculpa

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 252

[SOLVED] Plymouth + lightdm = 2 services allocated

Hello.

I wanted to try out plymouth with lightdm, but I'm now afraid to restart my computer. I have lightdm-plymouth service enabled (along with plymouth itself) and it gave me a strange message if I check the status of lightdm-plymouth.

lightdm-plymouth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, refusing operation.

I guess I'm out of luck? I found this, I'm assuming I'll be locked out since the service fails.

Edit: I never figured out what exactly was causing the messages, but it all worked out anyway.

Last edited by felixculpa (2016-06-19 03:55:32)

Jristz

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From: America/Santiago

Registered: 2011-06-11

Posts: 1,022

Re: [SOLVED] Plymouth + lightdm = 2 services allocated

do you disable lightdm.service first?

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Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?

felixculpa

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 252

Re: [SOLVED] Plymouth + lightdm = 2 services allocated

I'm pretty sure I did. I just finished reversing all changes so I'd be using just plain lightdm without plymouth. However, now when I check the status of plain old lightdm I'm getting the same message. I just noticed also, that a status check of lightdm-plymouth shows this:

Loaded: error (Reason: File exists)

I tried setting up plymouth once before, it looks like maybe there is an old file causing problems?

Edit: This would make sense to me... perhaps it was giving me error messages since I was currently logged into a lightdm session?

Last edited by felixculpa (2016-06-19 03:23:54)

felixculpa

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From: Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 252

Re: [SOLVED] Plymouth + lightdm = 2 services allocated

I decided to ignore the messages and rebooted, everything works fine with a plymouth setup!