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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/07/12 01:52, Mark wrote:<br>
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On Jun 20, 2012 4:59 AM, "Joshua O'Leary" <<a
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> On 20/06/12 12:25, MR ZenWiz wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I recently upgraded my work desktop to use Xubuntu
12.04 (from Ubuntu<br>
>> 10.10, complete fresh install).<br>
>><br>
>> This last Monday when I went in to work, all the
machines were off (we<br>
>> had a power outage over the weekend) and I had shut
mine down on<br>
>> Friday.<br>
>><br>
>> However, when I booted the machine, lightdm was killed
during the boot<br>
>> and it took me a reboot and some log scoping to figure
out what<br>
>> happened. When I started lightdm from the console,
everything went<br>
>> fine.<br>
>><br>
>> I had to reboot again due to an update, and the same
thing happened.<br>
>><br>
>> What would kill lightdm during startup but allow it to
run thereafter?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks.<br>
>><br>
>> MR Zenwiz<br>
>><br>
> You could try to reinstall lightdm, with "apt-get install
--reinstall lightdm", as root.<br>
> If that still doesn't work, try removing it completely with
"apt-get purge lightdm", then<br>
> "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop lightdm
lightdm-gtk-greeter"<br>
> 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.<br>
><br>
Unfortunately none of that worked. Lightdm still gets killed
during startup, even after purge & reinstall.</p>
<p>The logs contain nothing revealing, only that it was killed. No
reason, no perp.</p>
<p>It also shows gdm killed by TERM - same as lightdm.<br>
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Is gdm installed aswell? Maybe they are starting at the same time
(would be unusual but may have happened on a corrupted system), in
which case you could try removing gdm. Also, try another display
manager such as lxdm or xdm and see if they work properly. Does
running startx from a logged in tty work?<br>
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Joshua<br>
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