[xubuntu-users] Lightdm killed during boot

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 04/07/12 01:52, Mark wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2012 4:59 AM, "Joshua O'Leary" 
> <joshua.oleary at btinternet.com <mailto:joshua.oleary at btinternet.com>> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On 20/06/12 12:25, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently upgraded my work desktop to use Xubuntu 12.04 (from Ubuntu
> >> 10.10, complete fresh install).
> >>
> >> This last Monday when I went in to work, all the machines were off (we
> >> had a power outage over the weekend) and I had shut mine down on
> >> Friday.
> >>
> >> However, when I booted the machine, lightdm was killed during the boot
> >> and it took me a reboot and some log scoping to figure out what
> >> happened.  When I started lightdm from the console, everything went
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> I had to reboot again due to an update, and the same thing happened.
> >>
> >> What would kill lightdm during startup but allow it to run thereafter?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> MR Zenwiz
> >>
> > You could try to reinstall lightdm, with "apt-get install 
> --reinstall lightdm", as root.
> > If that still doesn't work, try removing it completely with "apt-get 
> purge lightdm", then
> > "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter"
> > Also take a look at your system logs - run dmesg to view the kernel 
> ring buffer, look at /var/log/syslog and also 
> /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log to see what is causing it to fail. 
> /var/log/xorg.0.log may also be useful.
> >
> Unfortunately none of that worked. Lightdm still gets killed during 
> startup, even after purge & reinstall.
>
> The logs contain nothing revealing, only that it was killed. No 
> reason, no perp.
>
> It also shows gdm killed by TERM - same as lightdm.
>
>
>
A workaround may be to add *service lightdm restart* to /etc/rc.local, 
so it reloads itself on bootup.

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