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

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2012/8/12 Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>:
> 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).

I'm wondering whether keeping the severity of this bug at RC level for
what seems to be a corner case that only occurs whenever using
'upstart' as /sbin/init makes sense. It's currently blocking the
transition into Testing of all packages generated from src:sysvinit,
including recent fixes for a number of long-standing bugs.

Martin-Éric