Cc kdm, lightdm, slim, wdm maintainers to warn you that you might be getting a RC bug (with a simple fix, add one 3-line file) assigned or cloned to your DM implementations.
Peter Palfrader wrote: > I just upgraded to jessie, and with plymouth installed, I don't get > any gettys/login prompts on any of the VCs. kdm starts up and gives me > an X login-prompt, but none of the consoles do. (The bad situation is: plymouth, gdm3 and kdm are all installed; kdm is selected as the x-display-manager implementation; and plymouth is enabled via "splash" on the kernel command-line.) On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 at 12:11:49 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > This bug is triggered by the fact that GDM systemd service is enabled > while KDM is also enabled. GDM .service file explicitly conflicts with > plymouth-quit.service as it calls "plymouth --quit" itself to allow a > smooth transition from plymouth to the login screen. To fix this part, > KDM should probably provides a .service file too and properly set a > symlink for display-manager.service (like GDM and lightdm are doing). One short path to a solution is to install this systemd "drop-in", which I have successfully tested in a jessie VM: smcv@debian:~$ cat /lib/systemd/system/kdm.service.d/after.conf [Unit] After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty7.service plymouth-quit.service Conflicts=getty@tty7.service plymouth-quit.service (In particular, because systemd generates equivalent native systemd units for sysvinit scripts, you don't actually have to write a native systemd unit for that drop-in to work.) I copied those from gdm3, but lxdm has the same. plymouth-quit.service is for this bug, getty@tty7.service is to avoid that getty fighting with *dm for control over the tty, and systemd-user-sessions.service is meant to run before any user can log in. slim and lightdm do have native systemd .service files, but don't have those relationships, which I think is probably a bug in those DMs' service files; they should probably gain those lines too. However, because they participate in managing the display-manager.service symlink, they suppress gdm.service altogether, so they might avoid get this problem with the plymouth handover. The remaining provider of x-display-manager is wdm, which doesn't have a systemd service or any systemd drop-ins AFAICS, so it probably suffers from a bug analogous to #766462 with wdm taking kdm's place. Adding the reverse relationships (Conflicts and Before) to plymouth-quit.service for all known DMs in jessie is tempting, since that would only require patching one package, but it probably isn't a great idea since Conflicts is not entirely symmetric: if systemd runs a transaction that is trying to start A and B, something Requires A, something Requires B, and A has Conflicts=B, then it is A that will "win" and be started. So my recommendation would be to change the display managers. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org