Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

[Norbert Preining]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 215-6
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
> > 
> > Aehm, since yesterday or so ligthdm does not start anymore, only updates related
> > were systemd, lightdm hasn't changed.
> > 
> > $ systemctl status lightdm
> > ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
> >    Loaded: error (Reason: File exists)
> >    Active: inactive (dead)
> >      Docs: man:lightdm(1)
> > $ /etc/init.d/lightdm start
> > Starting lightdm (via systemctl): lightdm.serviceFailed to start lightdm.service: Unit lightdm.service failed to load: File exists. See system logs and 'systemctl status lightdm.service' for details.
> >  failed!
> > $
> 
> At the same time, although it is *not* selected as default display
> manager, systemd tries to permanently start lxdm ...

So it seems that the auto-generated unit file for lxdm is the problem.
Removing lxdm I could at least start lightdm manually. But still it
didn't start automatically.

Norbert

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