[OpenIndiana-discuss] lightdm fails!

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run
> lightdm in my porevious BE
> that contained thed November 2017 bits. When I enter the following command
> a black screen pops up
> that disappears immediately and I see some messages on the terminal:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode debug
>
> ** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: 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:1009): WARNING **: 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:1009): WARNING **: Could not enumerate user data directory
> /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied
> lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/dtlocal'
> ** (process:1013): WARNING **: 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:1009): WARNING **: Could not create user data directory
> /var/lib/lightdm-data/apostolo: Error creating directory: Permission
> denied
>
> $ root at adalind:/var/lib# ls -l
> total 21
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root           3 Απρ 21  2016 dbus
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys            3 Νοε  1  2016 freeipmi
> drwxrwx--T  13 root     gdm           15 Δεκ 28  1986 gdm
> drwxrwx--T   4 root     lightdm        5 Μαΐ  4 18:32 lightdm-data
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin            2 Ιαν 22  2017 smartmontools
>
>
> Note that when I tried to run as root the command above it worked...
>



Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission
denied

If running the thing as root set the permissions incorrectly may be the fix
is not too difficult.

>
> A.S.
>
> ----------------------
> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
>
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