[SOLVED] lightdm login loop with openbox

Jasmine · 2018-01-09 20:45:42

Upon entering my password, lightdm opens a blank console in the middle of the screen and then goes back to the login. Logs don't tell me anything other than openbox/Xsession exited with status 1. Tried doing common solutions like delete .Xauthority, didn't work

Last edited by Jasmine (2018-01-13 17:27:10)

jasonwryan · 2018-01-09 21:06:14

Paste your configs and the journal entries.

Moving to NC...

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 02:18:05

[LightDM]
log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
run-directory=/var/run/lightdm

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter
user-session=openbox

What do you mean by journal entries?

jasonwryan · 2018-01-10 02:25:02

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

systemd's journal... There will be entries for your DM and, as your config shows, you have a log file.

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 02:40:52

lightdm log: https://ptpb.pw/EUdb

jornalctl log: https://ptpb.pw/nfvO

seth · 2018-01-10 08:33:40

[+193.71s] DEBUG: Session pid=616: Logging to .xsession-errors
....
[+193.75s] DEBUG: Session pid=616: Exited with return value 1

openbox crashes, if it writes anything, that should be in ~/.xsession-errors

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 11:34:21

.xsession-errors is empty

seth · 2018-01-10 12:37:45

Check whether it dumped its core:

coredumpctl

Otherwise start an xterm instead and try to run openbox from there.

Random other ideas:
Also try startx instead of lightdm.
Move away your openbox config.

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 20:37:20

No coredump, and I have no openbox config yet. Using startx and starting openbox from within xterm works fine

seth · 2018-01-10 20:42:20

Notice that lightdm will run /usr/bin/openbox-session which is a shell script.
You could try to edit /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop and make it run openbox directly.

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 20:51:57

Tried that, no effect

jasonwryan · 2018-01-10 21:05:18

Please paste your full pacman.log

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 21:57:00

https://ptpb.pw/pt_u

jasonwryan · 2018-01-10 22:03:02

Why is the first thing you install after system tools (git, sudo, etc) and before X, a GTK theme?

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 22:05:02

Automated install script, im doing it piece by piece manually, and then adding it to the script after, hence arc is done but im working on lightdm now

jasonwryan · 2018-01-10 22:06:42

Whose automated script?

Jasmine · 2018-01-10 22:08:22

Mine, written from scratch. Basically just mounts a usb with configs and another script, does a basic install following the guide, and then chroots and setups a new user, copies configs, and installs programs

Jasmine · 2018-01-12 21:53:12

Any other ideas? I tried setting the openbox.desktop command to be

openbox --debug > ~/log.txt 2>&1

but no file is created

jasonwryan · 2018-01-12 22:00:26

Well, it's not an openbox issue, but a lightdm one, per #9.

seth · 2018-01-12 22:12:55

Actually that wasn't entirely clear because lightdm calls openbox-session and not openbox, but comment #18 sorted that out as well.

There's also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207533 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170866 - so the issue is real and old.

Time to invoke gdb & strace, I'd say. Or ditch lightdm.

loqs · 2018-01-12 22:13:40

[+1353.57s] DEBUG: Session pid=943: Running command lightdm-session /usr/bin/openbox-session

Would have expected /etc/lightdm/Xsession instead of lightdm-session
Please post the whole of the system's /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Jasmine · 2018-01-12 22:16:58

Huh. Adding

session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

fixed it. I KNOW ive tried that before with no result. Maybe it's a combination of things? Idk anymore, glad its fixed tho , thanks for your help

V1del · 2018-01-13 03:17:38

Please mark as solved, by editing the title of your initial post.

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