[oi-dev] No gdm or lightdm after update?

[Gordon Ross]

Looks like there were vestiges of gdm left around, perhaps from my
previous attempts to get that back working.  Anyway, found the lightdm
svc disabled. After I enabled it, I got a lightdm logon greeter.
Upgrades never seem to go smoothly for me...


On 4/17/18, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, did "pkg install mate_install" in a new BE, and it appears now
> that it _tries_ to start a logon greeter of some sort. Unfortunately,
> it doesn't stay up running long enough for me to see or do anything,
> and once it exits (on this laptop) the screen is left in a mode that
> vgatext doesn't know how to use.  Last thing in var/adm/messages is:
>
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[855]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: Failed to give slave programs access to the
> display. Trying to proceed.
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[855]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: Couldn't look up uid
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[887]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: User gdm doesn't exist
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[855]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: Unable to parse output:
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[855]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: Unable to parse D-Bus launch output
> Apr 17 21:58:29 tr705 gdm-simple-slave[890]: [ID 702911
> daemon.warning] WARNING: User gdm doesn't exist
>
> Any more ideas?
>
>
>
> On 4/17/18, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
>> does that mean I have to switch from gnome to mate?
>> I was hoping to be a "late adopter" of that...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On 4/17/18, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 17 Apr 2018, at 18:40, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I recently updated the little laptop I used for drm testing, and after
>>>> the update there's no logon screen.  The gdm manifest is gone, so I
>>>> guess it was supposed to switch to lightdm or something?  I tried to
>>>> enable lightdm, and got the below in the svc log.  Ideas?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had the same, did pkg install mate_install, something there seemed to
>>> help.
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> toomas
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>
>
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> Gordon Ross <gwr at nexenta.com>
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