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zvptb8
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 Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:41 pm Post subject: LightDM won't start until dbus is restarted (elogind issue?) |
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I am having an issue that started a few months ago where lightdm won't start on boot. I have temporarily removed display-manager from the default runlevel to help with debugging - so I am sure that the issue is not "lightdm gets stuck during boot" but rather "after booting, lightdm does not work unless i restart dbus".
After booting, starting the display-manager service (or just running lightdm directly) causes it to hang indefinitely - the logs are below - it always gets stuck on the "User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added" line. The exit after that line is from me pressing Ctrl+C to exit the lightdm process (this one was from a manual "lightdm" run, but the same thing happens when using the display-manager service).
| Code: | [+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.32.0, UID=0 PID=3587
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process “plymouth” (No such file or directory)
[+0.03s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+0.03s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Got signal 2 from process 0
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Caught Interrupt signal, shutting down
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+211.46s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 0
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The only way to get it to run after booting is to restart dbus and then start the display-manager service (or run lightdm directly). The logs are below:
| Code: | [+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.32.0, UID=0 PID=4180
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
[+25.00s] WARNING: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Loading properties from config section Seat:*
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process “plymouth” (No such file or directory)
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+25.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+25.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+25.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+25.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Launching X Server
[+25.02s] DEBUG: Launching process 4188: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+25.02s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+25.02s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+25.02s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+25.03s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+25.03s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+27.30s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 4188
[+27.30s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Got signal from X server :0
[+27.30s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Connecting to XServer :0
[+27.31s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server ready, starting session authentication
[+27.31s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Started with service 'lightdm-greeter', username 'root'
[+27.32s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+27.32s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session authenticated, running command
[+27.32s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter
[+27.32s] DEBUG: Creating shared data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/root
[+27.32s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log
[+52.35s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+52.53s] DEBUG: Greeter connected version=1.32.0 api=1 resettable=false
[+52.85s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for zvptb
[+52.85s] DEBUG: Session pid=4257: Started with service 'lightdm', username 'zvptb'
[+52.86s] DEBUG: Session pid=4257: Got 1 message(s) from PAM
[+52.86s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
[+292.97s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+293.01s] DEBUG: Session pid=4257: Authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+293.01s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user zvptb: Success
[+293.01s] DEBUG: User zvptb authorized
[+293.07s] DEBUG: Greeter sets language en_US.utf8
[+293.21s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session i3
[+293.21s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping greeter; display server will be re-used for user session
[+293.21s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Sending SIGTERM
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Session pid=4218: Exited with return value 0
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Greeter stopped, running session
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Session pid=4257: Running command /etc/lightdm/Xsession i3
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Creating shared data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/zvptb
[+293.23s] DEBUG: Session pid=4257: Logging to .xsession-errors
[+318.26s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
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The thing that stands out to me is that when lightdm does start correctly, the log messages contain an error about being unable to get a list of logind seats. I just checked my other computer which has a similar setup (but always starts correctly) and that contains the same message. So it seems that maybe the issue is with elogind - when lightdm is not able to reach elogind, it starts correctly, but when it gets the list of logind seats, it just hangs indefinitely. Is there some sort of lightdm/elogind configuration I should have somewhere? I checked the lightdm/elogind gentoo wiki pages and did not see anything. |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to Gentoo!
Try enabling elogind@boot.And disable dbus.
If not try also enabling dbus@default.
If not remove elogind@boot and enable it together with dbus @default.
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zvptb8
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| Hi alamahant, thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I tried all 3 options and none had any effect - still the same issue. |
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