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

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 03:37:52PM +1000, James Tocknell wrote:
> I've tested the patch, and it doesn't fix the issue I'm having. I'm
> using Upstart
> as my init daemon, and lightdm still fails, with no useful output in
> /var/log/boot. However, lightdm does start when I use sysvinit as the init
> daemon, with the patch. Could this be a Upstart issue? I know lightdm has
> some association with Ubuntu, and Upstart is Ubuntu's default init daemon,
> could the issue be with the very different versions of Upstart in Ubuntu and
> Debian? The problem could lie in the fix for the bug #660824, which was a
> change between the version of sysvinit-utils that works for me and don't work
> for me, as it's Upstart related.

I'll have to ask Steve Langasek, who was responsible for that change.

Steve, it appears that lightdm won't start using upstart with the
recent sysvinit upstart bridge stuff.  I'm not sure if this is an
issue in sysvinit, startpar-upstart-inject, or upstart.  I've
patched startpar to special-case lightdm as for gdm/kdm, but this
doesn't appear to have any effect here (but is probably generally
a good thing to have).


Thanks,
Roger

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