Package: nodm Severity: normal Hello,
Joona Manner writes: > I did notice that if you have installed normal Ubuntu package with > Gnome, you must disable lightdm loading on background while starting > NODM. > > - to do this you just have to create a new file: > > /etc/init/lightdm.override > > - and type in it: > > manual > > - and reboot the computer after that. > > If gnome graphic interface is loaded on background when user wants to > use e.g. NODM and Openbox instead of Gnome, loading lightdm (Gnome > graphic +login interface) makes starting NODM totally random. NODM > seems to be starting e.g. 5 times in a row ok, but then suddenly it > ends up into +Gnome login window. No matter how much timeout is set to > NODM. > > After doing that lightdm.override, I did test NODM and it started > perfectly over 50 times in a row and is still starting perfectly every > time. I +did also adjust timeout to be 120 seconds but the it did not > have any effect before doing that lightdm.override. > > Since I found some other users struggling with this, I hope that you > can put this info to your NODM page. although I would not know how to prevent the race condition of two display managers trying to start at the same time, this behaviour should be documented. Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
