Recently, lightdm shows strange behavior after a dist-upgrade (users of fresh installations beware!)
Symptom: After dist-upgrade and reboot, LightDM starts and closes repeatedly, the user has no chance to step out of this loop (also changing to ttyX doesn't help)
Remedy: edit as root the /usr/share/xsessions/lightdm-xsession.desktop
An entry should look like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Default Xsession
Exec=startlxde
Icon=
Type=Application
where startlxde is replaced by your Window Manager/Desktop Environnment session starter (startxfce4, openbox-session, awesome, dwm, ...)
and enable auto-login by editing as root /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
autologin-user=bbq
where bbq is replaced by your username.
All this can also be done from a live session. Boot into a live system, mount the drive with your BBQ installation:
sudo blkid
Find the device node where LinuxBBQ is installed (for example /dev/sda3)
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
sudo nano /mnt/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
sudo nano /mnt/usr/share/xsessions/lightdm-xsession.desktop
sudo umount /mnt
reboot
LightDM endless loop
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LightDM endless loop
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Re: LightDM endless loop
am sitting here funking around with some persistent usbbq stuff when I got the loop, remembered your post, so you saved my azz once again baconman, thanks, again:)
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