[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#679409: lightdm: Fails to start on boot, invoke-rc.d lightdm start fails

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 05:26:29PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 02:06:52PM +1000, James Tocknell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On lun., 2012-07-02 at 10:02 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > >> [Yves-Alexis Perez]
> > >> > James, in any case, I think providing /etc/init.d/.depend.* might
> > >> > help solving this.
> > >>
> > >> Actually, it is better to provide the output from
> > >> /usr/share/insserv/make-testsuite, which allow the boot sequence to be
> > >> reproduced using dummy init.d scripts.
> > >>
> > >> > Please keep me on CC: so I'm informed of the development. It might
> > >> > be interesting to provide /var/log/lightdm.log and
> > >> > /var/log/lightdm-gtk-greeeter.log, although the fact it works with
> > >> > startx might means it won't show anything.
> > >>
> > >> To debug this, try to disable concurrent booting (and keep dependency
> > >> based boot sequencing), and see if it work better.  Also, it would be
> > >> useful to get the boot log (/var/log/boot.log) after enabling
> > >> bootlogd.
> 
> I've installed lightdm on my system, and I do see the occasional
> failure to start.  This would indicate some race in parallelisation
> which would be indicative of a missing dependency.

Please could you try sysvinit with the patch attached here?  This special
cases lightdm in startpar, since gdm/kdm/xdm are already special cased
here.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/sysvinit;a=commitdiff;h=34ee13ba8d509183b568c70511289f7f7579502b

If you're unable to build yourself, let me know and I'll prepare some
packages.


Thanks,
Roger

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