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grobar87

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From: Македонија

Registered: 2010-08-25

Posts: 174

[Solved]lightdm falied to start session

HI,
I use lightdm as my display manager with dwm and i wanted to change my avatar but something did wrong. Now lightdm starts but when i enter my password i get message "failed to start session".
Any ideas how to fix this?
Everything works fine before.

Thanks.

Last edited by grobar87 (2023-04-05 14:55:01)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,087

Re: [Solved]lightdm falied to start session

Check the system journal and he lightdm logs.
W/o knowing how you "wanted to change my avatar but something did wrong" there's no way for us to tell you what went wrong. But the logs might.

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grobar87

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From: Македонија

Registered: 2010-08-25

Posts: 174

Re: [Solved]lightdm falied to start session

I solved it.
/var/lib/Accountsservice/users in file dejan(my user name) there was a  line "Xsession=default" i changed in "Xsession=dwm":

[User]
Session=
XSession=dwm
Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/dejan.png
SystemAccount=false

This fixed my problem.

@seth Thanks for help.

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