[OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

[Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss]

Hello,

In my system I tried  once to enable lightdm but I could not log in so
I reverted to gdm that worked just fine. The latest version of hipster
has removed all gdm related things and now I cannot log in to my account!
The login screen appears, I enter my user name and my password, the screen
becomes black and then I see the login screen again and again and again.
Is there ant way to actually login into my account? BTW, it is possible
to reinstall the missing gdm bits?

A.S.

PS I have found a way to solve the problem of getting accents on Greek letters
(this is on a different machine). I just start ibus from the
System --> Control Center, logout, login and it works! Of course this
is not  solution but a hack since the original input method should work...

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello,
In my system I tried  once to enable lightdm but I could not log in so
I reverted to gdm that worked just fine. The latest version of hipster
has removed all gdm related things and now I cannot log in to my account!
The login screen appears, I enter my user name and my password, the screen
becomes black and then I see the login screen again and again and again.
Is there ant way to actually login into my account? BTW, it is possible
to reinstall the missing gdm bits?

Hi.
1) It's not possible to reinstall gdm, it was removed.
2) You can look at ~/.xsession-errors. If it doesn't help, you can try
set lightdm/args property of lightdm service to "-d" and look at
messages in syslog.

[Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss]

In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run lightdm in my porevious BE
that contained thed November 2017 bits. When I enter the following command a black screen pops up
that disappears immediately and I see some messages on the terminal:

$ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode debug

** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/dtlocal'
** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not create user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/apostolo: Error creating directory: Permission denied

$ ***@adalind:/var/lib# ls -l
total 21
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           3 Απρ 21  2016 dbus
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys            3 Νοε  1  2016 freeipmi
drwxrwx--T  13 root     gdm           15 Δεκ 28  1986 gdm
drwxrwx--T   4 root     lightdm        5 Μαΐ  4 18:32 lightdm-data
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin            2 Ιαν 22  2017 smartmontools


Note that when I tried to run as root the command above it worked...

A.S.

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run
lightdm in my porevious BE
that contained thed November 2017 bits. When I enter the following command
a black screen pops up
$ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode debug
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Error getting user list from
The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not enumerate user data directory
/var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/dtlocal'
** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from
The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not create user data directory
/var/lib/lightdm-data/apostolo: Error creating directory: Permission
denied
total 21
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Απρ 21 2016 dbus
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 3 Νοε 1 2016 freeipmi
drwxrwx--T 13 root gdm 15 Δεκ 28 1986 gdm
drwxrwx--T 4 root lightdm 5 Μαΐ 4 18:32 lightdm-data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 2 Ιαν 22 2017 smartmontools
Note that when I tried to run as root the command above it worked...

Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission
denied

If running the thing as root set the permissions incorrectly may be the fix
is not too difficult.

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A.S.
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Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied
If running the thing as root set the permissions incorrectly may be the fix is not too difficult.

First:

/usr/sbin/beadm list
BE        Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created
hipster-1 -      -          28,8M static 2016-08-06 22:50
hipster-3 -      -          30,9M static 2016-09-25 20:06
hipster-4 -      -          30,7M static 2016-11-01 18:30
hipster-6 -      -          21,0M static 2016-12-22 15:25
hipster-7 -      -          49,3M static 2017-05-03 15:47
hipster-8 N      /          138M  static 2017-11-08 15:34
hipster-9 R      -          241G  static 2018-05-04 16:30

It is impossible to log in to hipster-9. I made the tests on
hipster-8. So what is exactly that you are suggesting? And no:
running as root did not set anything (at least that's my understanding).
In fact, when I run the test command as root, the login screen appeared
so the test worked. When I run the test command as an ordinary user, it
failed.

A.S.

[Tim Mooney]

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run lightdm in my porevious BE
that contained thed November 2017 bits.

lightdm is working fine on my system. I last updated a couple weeks ago,
so it was current as of mid-April, 2018.

When I did the switch from parts-of-gnome with gdm to only MATE with
lightdm, I followed the advice of others that had already been through
that process:

sudo svcadm disable gdm
sudo svcadm enable lightdm

To ensure lightdm started correctly on boot, I then rebooted. That
was all it took for me to get a working lightdm.

Regarding the log messages you're seeing...

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
When I enter the following command a black screen pops up
$ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode debug
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

I see messages of this type every time lightdm is restarted, so they
appear to be "normal" for lightdm on OI.

They get logged to the svc log file for lightdm, which you can locate in
the output of 'svcs -l lightdm'.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied

That's happening because you're running the test as a normal user.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/dtlocal'

Your tty name looks weird, but considering how you're running the test,
that may not be relevant.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not create user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data/apostolo: Error creating directory: Permission denied

That's again because you're running the test as yourself. Once you've
been able to successfully login (once) with lightdm, it will auto-create
that directory with correct permissions.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
total 21
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           3 Απρ 21  2016 dbus
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys            3 Νοε  1  2016 freeipmi
drwxrwx--T  13 root     gdm           15 Δεκ 28  1986 gdm
drwxrwx--T   4 root     lightdm        5 Μαΐ  4 18:32 lightdm-data
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin            2 Ιαν 22  2017 smartmontools

Permissions on /var/lib/lightdm-data match my working install:

$ ls -ald /var/lib/lightdm-data
drwxrwx--T 5 root lightdm 6 Apr 17 15:27 /var/lib/lightdm-data

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Note that when I tried to run as root the command above it worked...

Try this in your current BE (not some old BE):

1) truncate the contents of the svc log file for lightdm. You can get its
location with

svcs -l lightdm | egrep logfile

2) once that file is empty, make certain that lightdm is enabled and gdm is
disabled.

3) reboot.

4) if lightdm does not correctly start up, include the contents of the log
file in a message to the list.

Hopefully there will be something obvious in the log file from a standard
startup of lightdm.

Tim

[Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss]

Back in January I tried to enable lightdm which failed and I got this:


lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Stopping because service disabled. ][ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
 ]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
 ]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
 ]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 26 13:55:28 Disabled. ]
[ Ιαν 27 14:46:05 Disabled. ]


I have checked on the new BE and I get similar messages.

Request: Can I have the gdm bits back please?

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Stopping because service
disabled. ][ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method
("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop").
]
kill: 2493: no such process
[ Ιαν 25 22:22:54 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Ιαν 26 13:55:28 Disabled. ]
[ Ιαν 27 14:46:05 Disabled. ]
I have checked on the new BE and I get similar messages.

Could it be that you are missing a dependency?

How did you migrate to MATE? Did you install mate_install?

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Request: Can I have the gdm bits back please?

This is unfortunately impossible, the code has been deprecated a long time
ago and cannot be maintained independently.

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And here is what I get on the new BE:

[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop"). ]
kill: 719: no such process
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop"). ]
kill: 719: no such process
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop"). ]
kill: 719: no such process
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:25 Method "stop" exited with status 1. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:57 Leaving maintenance because disable requested. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:34:57 Disabled. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:36:15 Enabled. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:36:49 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm start"). ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:36:50 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]

** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

(lightdm:946): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

(lightdm:946): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error getting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR from ConsoleKit: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetXDGRuntimeDir" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session" doesn't exist


** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat

** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied

(lightdm:946): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:1035): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Μαΐ  4 19:39:58 Stopping because service disabled. ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:39:58 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm stop"). ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:39:58 Method "stop" exited with status 0. ]


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Xanthi, Greece

[Tim Mooney]

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[ Μαΐ  4 19:36:49 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm start"). ]
[ Μαΐ  4 19:36:50 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
(lightdm:946): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'

Other than differences for date, time, and pid numbers, all of that matches
(even the tty) my most recent lightdm login on my workstation.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
(lightdm:946): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error getting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR from ConsoleKit: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetXDGRuntimeDir" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session" doesn't exist
** (lightdm:946): WARNING **: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat

The messages above are also common to my working lightdm


This next message is not something I see, and it's something you should

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied

You can either fix permissions on it (it should be owned by you and have
your primary group, with mode 0600) or completely remove ~/.Xauthority

Once you've done that, log out and log back in and see if the messages
have changed.

Tim

[Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss]

Post by Tim Mooney

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied

You can either fix permissions on it (it should be owned by you and have
your primary group, with mode 0600) or completely remove ~/.Xauthority
Once you've done that, log out and log back in and see if the messages
have changed.

This solved the problem! Thank you. I think this should go into the documentation.
Thanks once more for your time and help!

A.S.

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[Tim Mooney]

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Post by Tim Mooney

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** (process:1026): WARNING **: Error reading existing Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/home/apostolo/.Xauthority?: Permission denied
Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /home/apostolo/.Xauthority: Permission denied

You can either fix permissions on it (it should be owned by you and have
your primary group, with mode 0600) or completely remove ~/.Xauthority
Once you've done that, log out and log back in and see if the messages
have changed.

This solved the problem! Thank you. I think this should go into the
documentation. Thanks once more for your time and help!

Glad I could help. You and many other people on the mailing list have
provided information and solutions to issues I've run into, so I'm happy
to be able to "return the favor".

Tim