[OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 05/04/18 05:21 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In my system I tried  once to enable lightdm but I could not log in so
> I reverted to gdm that worked just fine. The latest version of hipster
> has removed all gdm related things and now I cannot log in to my account!
> The login screen appears, I enter my user name and my password, the screen
> becomes black and then I see the login screen again and again and again.
> Is there ant way to actually login into my account? BTW, it is possible
> to reinstall the missing gdm bits?

Hi.
1) It's not possible to reinstall gdm, it was removed.
2) You can look at ~/.xsession-errors. If it doesn't help, you can try 
set lightdm/args property of lightdm service to "-d" and look at 
messages in syslog.

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department