[Pkg-xfce-devel] Debian testing installs with XDM as dependency of Xfce fail (eventually) when switched to LightDM

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Thu Sep 1 20:29:46 UTC 2011


On jeu., 2011-09-01 at 15:01 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> If you think that this is possibly due to some gremlin in the original 
> installation / dependencies setup I'll just wait until LightDM has been 
> made of dependency of the Xfce desktop, and then try clean installations.

It might be interesting to compare the output of dpkg -l on the 5
installs.
> 
> Bear in mind that I saw someone running Xubuntu (I forget the version.) 
> over on the LightDM list complaining about what sounded to me like 
> pretty much the same issue, so I'm thinking the problem may also not be 
> distro-specific to Debian.
> 
Something interesting would be the /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log in
various cases (working, “init respawned to fast” and failing).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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