Lightdm (grave bug)

[ivanovnegro]

Lightdm 1.8.3-1 will fuck with your Gnome session and it seems also with your Xfce session, maybe it will also insult your mother or girlfriend. Now you can see why we prefer to use startx.
So, if you use lightdm and you need it for your sessions, put it on hold, and just to be sure, lightdm-gtk-greeter, too. In the worst case, just downgrade to the older 1.6.3-1.

Reference

[machinebacon]

[ivanovnegro]

^ That, that. :D :D

[vic]

No problem on my "ENOUGH" install, LXDE/OpenBox.

[machinebacon]

Oh yes, seems they pulled lightdm up to 1.8.3 but lightdm-gtk-greeter is still at 1.6.3 -- smells like a transition there (maybe for GTK3.8) so I echo ivan's suggestion for those who use XFCE and GNOME3 ;)
Interesting that LXDE is not affected. Maybe because it's now managed differently (lxsession got an upgrade a few weeks ago)

[ivanovnegro]

There seems to be a workaround. If you are not using systemd, then remove the package libpam-systemd, I do not have it even installed.

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 21:11 +0100, Jens Arnold wrote:
> Today I digged further, and found the difference between the working
> machines and the non-working ones. The non-working ones had an extra
> entry in /etc/pam.d/common-session:
>
> session optional pam_systemd.so
>
> This entry gets placed there by the package libpam-systemd. Removing
> this entry fixed the problem here. The working machines didn't have
> libpam-systemd installed, so I uninstalled it from all of them.

Thanks for the investigation. I've checked and can confirm that
installing libpam-systemd breaks lightdm indeed.

I'll forward that information upstream and ask for advice on this.
--
Yves-Alexis

or

I have experienced the same troubles with mounting drives, using
shutdown/restart etc... since lightdm upgrade to 1.8.

I have found that keeping libpam-systemd installed and running

pam-auth-update --force

then selecting only "Unix Authentication" solves the problem.

The previous solutions (removing libpam-systemd or commenting a line in
/etc/pam.d/common-session) also worked but created some troubles with
libGL (also authentication problems).

I hope it helps

Louis

[ew.linux]

Confirmed. Lightdm in sid messed with my xfce session in Absinthe. Added a long delay to my boot and the shutdown/restart-options wasn`t at the login-page. Just a dead button. But I removed it, and manually downloaded and installed the deb-package of the version in Jessie(1.6.3-1). Works great, so for now I have put lightdm on hold...

[DebianJoe]

The correct fix is to totally remove lightdm...always, regardless of what the problem is.

[machinebacon]

correct ^

make automount work manually. :D

[dkeg]

'greed....remove it....move on

[ivanovnegro]

As I said, it works perfectly without libpam-systemd, just in case.

[ew.linux]

The correct fix is to totally remove lightdm...always, regardless of what the problem is.

Yes, that`s correct, but a well-configured lightdm login-page looks very cool, and besides, it makes the system usable for people that aren`t all that into Linux. Like my wife. I can`t present her with a system where she has to use a tty to login or switch users or sessions:)

[machinebacon]

Wives are bloat.

[rhowaldt]

tty or die.

[machinebacon]

ok, ex-wives are bloat too (not looking at anyone here)

[ivanovnegro]

Rho derails obligatory the upgrade warnings section.

[machinebacon]

There's so little breakage recently in Sid (I don't remember it ever being so quiet like in the last 3-4 months), so let's derail the shit out of the forums :D

Poor those who get notifications in their mailbox.

To all those of you: Eat Pussy :D

[DebianJoe]

ok, ex-wives are bloat too (not looking at anyone here)

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get remove --purge ex-wife

dpkg: error processing ex-wife (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script ('lawyer') returned error exit status 100
Errors were encountered while processing: ex-wife.

[machinebacon]

apt-cache depends ex-wife
Depends: lover
Depends: budget
Depends: lawyer
Depends: children
Recommends: wife2
Suggests: libmasturbate
Breaks: parents-in-law
Breaks: children
Breaks: marriage
Breaks: mental-health-dbg

[johnraff]