[OpenIndiana-discuss] boot problems: KPTI enabled (PCID in use, INVPCID not supported)

[Chris]

On 2021-01-12 15:00, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot problems: KPTI enabled 
> (PCID...:
> 
>>> The mate_install bundle should have pulled in
>>> 
>>> 	system/display-manager/lightdm
> 
> Do you have any other lightdm-related packages installed?  It's likely
> not important for this issue, but I'm just trying to determine how closely
> your config matches mine.
> 
>>> Try enabling that service and rebooting:
>>> 
>>> 	$ svcs -a | egrep -i light
>>> 	online         Oct_28
>>> 	svc:/application/graphical-login/lightdm:default
>> I sent a:
>> sudo svcadm enable lightdm
>> 
>> a reboot, and a look at the /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log indicated
>> keyboard input was taken.
> 
> Ok.  If you do something like
> 
> 	ps -ef | egrep -i lightdm
> 
> what all shows up as running?  Again, I'm just trying to determine how
> closely your system matches mine.
> 
> Are there other log files created in /var/log/lightdm ?  For example,
> x-0.log or seat0-greeter.log ?
heres a copy of the lightdm.log:
https://BSDforge.com/lightdm.log

> 
>> But as I can't see anything on screen
>> (the screen flashes indicating graphics mode/xorg started). I'm
>> afraid what I *really* need is to discover why nothing (the DE/
>> greeter) aren't written to the screen.
>> No hints of a problem in /var/Xorg.0.log. :-(
> 
> It's been a long time since I've had to debug anything with lightdm,
> so I'm afraid I don't have any magic suggestions.  I would probably look
> at the documentation for lightdm.conf and see if there's a switch
> that increases log verbosity for the process.
> 
> Tim
--Chris
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