[kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi!

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 23:20:58 +0200 Francesco Muzio <muziofg at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:4.11.9-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear maintainers,
> My machine (updated debian testing) has only KDM as display manager, it 
> starts without problem after upgrading/trasition to systemd.
> 
> But in journald log I see this message
> 
> systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, 
> ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or 
> directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status 
> display-manager.service' for details.

For jessie we ship a generator called
systemd-default-display-manager-generator which is supposed to
workaround some of the issues by not having all display managers in
Debian provide a native .service and setup
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.
Since this is a Debian specific patch and an incomplete hack, we will
get rid of that for stretch.
Thus bumping the severity of this bug to important.

I notice that sddm, the successor of kdm for plasma desktop, already
supports the new scheme.

You should consider copying the bits from there. Or if kdm is dead,
maybe arrange for having it being transformed into a transitional
package which pulls in sddm on upgrades.

Michael

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