[oi-dev] lightdm failed repeatedly

[Marcel Telka]

On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 02:14:13PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> Today, I tried upgrading a system with an Intel CPU.  The reboot went
> normally, but the GUI failed.  I see these errors in
> /var/svc/log/application-graphical-login-lightdm:
> 
> lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Nov  2 13:38:36 Enabled. ]
> [ Nov  2 13:39:09 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm start"). ]
> [ Nov  2 13:39:09 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
> 
> ** (lightdm:1548): WARNING **: 13:39:09.053: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
> 
> ** (lightdm:1548): WARNING **: 13:39:09.073: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
> [ Nov  2 13:39:10 Stopping because process dumped core. ]
> 
> The file .service does not exist.  I rebooted back to a previous BE to
> recover.  What can I do to fix the problem?


I do have simlar warnings for ages (see below) and lightdm works okay (no
cores).  So I suggest to do the core file analysis to find what's happening.




[ Jun 25 14:50:50 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm start"). ]
[ Jun 25 14:50:50 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]

** (lightdm:2134): WARNING **: 14:50:50.605: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:2134): WARNING **: 14:50:50.620: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:2387): WARNING **: 14:50:54.265: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (process:2387): WARNING **: 14:50:54.478: Error getting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR from ConsoleKit: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetXDGRuntimeDir" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session" doesn't exist


** (lightdm:2134): WARNING **: 14:50:54.478: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat
[ Jun 25 15:30:59 Enabled. ]
[ Jun 25 15:31:33 Rereading configuration. ]
[ Jun 25 15:32:13 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-lightdm start"). ]
[ Jun 25 15:32:13 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]

** (lightdm:802): WARNING **: 15:32:14.017: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:802): WARNING **: 15:32:14.048: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'
** (process:814): WARNING **: 15:32:19.212: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

** (lightdm:802): WARNING **: 15:32:19.766: Error activating ConsoleKit session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.CkSeatError.Code0: Activation is not supported for this kind of seat
lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/vt/7'[ Jun 25 15:47:24 Enabled. ]



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