[opensuse-xfce] Startup weirdness
Hi, After installing 13.1 on a netbook I am getting some startup weirdness in that lightdm is not started :( I can get to a VT Ctrl-Alt-F_ and I checked /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, it is set to lightdm. Default run level is set to 5. systemd starts Xorg, at least according to the message in verbose boot. The symptom is that the box just sits there after the last systemd message and nothing happens. When I switch to a VT, login as root and run lightdm I get the login screen as I expect. This was a fresh install of 13.1 due to a snafu with the upgrade, that's a different story. I guess I am missing something, but what? When starting lightdm in this way there are a few other oddities: - There's no drop down menu for the "power switch" in the upper right hand corner that usually presents the "hibernate" "shutdown" option - After logging in NM applet is running but tells me NetworkManager is not running, ps -A | grep Net tells me otherwise? -> restarting the network resolves the issue. Help is as always much appreciated. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
Dear Robert.
After installing 13.1 on a netbook I am getting some startup weirdness in that lightdm is not started :(
I can get to a VT Ctrl-Alt-F_ and I checked /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, it is set to lightdm.
Default run level is set to 5.
systemd starts Xorg, at least according to the message in verbose boot.
The symptom is that the box just sits there after the last systemd message and nothing happens.
This is a known bug. You might want to take a look at the ML archive. From what I know, there is no solution available, yet (besides switching to e.g. xdm). Greets Marcus
Hi, On 12/11/2013 11:22 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Dear Robert.
After installing 13.1 on a netbook I am getting some startup weirdness in that lightdm is not started :(
I can get to a VT Ctrl-Alt-F_ and I checked /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, it is set to lightdm.
Default run level is set to 5.
systemd starts Xorg, at least according to the message in verbose boot.
The symptom is that the box just sits there after the last systemd message and nothing happens.
This is a known bug.
Thanks, still weird, considering that I have not been hit by this and I have 5 other machines using lightdm and XFCE, including anothre netbook, i.e. 32 bit.
You might want to take a look at the ML archive.
Will do.
From what I know, there is no solution available, yet (besides switching to e.g. xdm).
Will try that. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Robert Schweikert
Hi,
On 12/11/2013 11:22 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Dear Robert.
After installing 13.1 on a netbook I am getting some startup weirdness in that lightdm is not started :(
I can get to a VT Ctrl-Alt-F_ and I checked /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, it is set to lightdm.
Default run level is set to 5.
systemd starts Xorg, at least according to the message in verbose boot.
The symptom is that the box just sits there after the last systemd message and nothing happens.
This is a known bug.
Thanks, still weird, considering that I have not been hit by this and I have 5 other machines using lightdm and XFCE, including anothre netbook, i.e. 32 bit.
It seems to be a race condition, I haven't been able to reproduce myself but for some people it seems to happen every time. Unfortunately there are a lot of moving parts involved, lightdm, systemd, X, and our xdm init script which makes it difficult to debug.
You might want to take a look at the ML archive.
Will do.
It's https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846832 Since I haven't gotten any more hints from the lightdm list I'll open an upstream bug. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/11/2013 04:13 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Robert Schweikert
[2013-12-11 18:34]: Hi,
On 12/11/2013 11:22 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Dear Robert.
After installing 13.1 on a netbook I am getting some startup weirdness in that lightdm is not started :(
I can get to a VT Ctrl-Alt-F_ and I checked /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, it is set to lightdm.
Default run level is set to 5.
systemd starts Xorg, at least according to the message in verbose boot.
The symptom is that the box just sits there after the last systemd message and nothing happens.
This is a known bug.
Thanks, still weird, considering that I have not been hit by this and I have 5 other machines using lightdm and XFCE, including anothre netbook, i.e. 32 bit.
It seems to be a race condition,
Yes, I'd go along with that, given the problem only occurs on 1 of 5 systems with basically the same setup. The system with the problem is the "slowest", i.e. weakest processing power. I haven't been able to reproduce
myself but for some people it seems to happen every time. Unfortunately there are a lot of moving parts involved, lightdm, systemd, X, and our xdm init script which makes it difficult to debug.
You might want to take a look at the ML archive.
Will do.
Found the bug and added myself. Looks like you already have all the debug output you need.
Since I haven't gotten any more hints from the lightdm list I'll open an upstream bug.
If there is any debugging I can help with let me know. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
* Robert Schweikert
On 12/11/2013 04:13 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Found the bug and added myself. Looks like you already have all the debug output you need.
Since I haven't gotten any more hints from the lightdm list I'll open an upstream bug.
If there is any debugging I can help with let me know.
Yes, it would be helpful if you could subscribe to https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1260220 , upstream might request additional information. Thanks, -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-xfce+owner@opensuse.org
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Guido Berhoerster
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Marcus Moeller
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Robert Schweikert