Package: lightdm
Followup-For: Bug #1144037
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Hi,

Similar happens here but under Xorg.

$ dm-tool switch-to-greeter 
Unable to switch to greeter: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: 
Failed to switch to greeter

As a consequence, locking the screen (ctrl-alt-del):
1.33.0-1:     I am not able to re-enter Xorg again => loosing any unsaved work.
1.32.0-7+b1:  Works as expected.

Due to below, culprit is lightdm 1.33.0-1,  not liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64. 


Fail:
$ dpkg -l "*lightdm*"
┌── Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
│┌─ Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
││┌ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
│││ Name                         Version      Architecture Description
├┼┼─════════════════════════════─════════════─════════════─════════════════════════════════════════
hi  liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64 1.32.0-7+b1  amd64        simple display 
manager (GObject library)
ii  lightdm                      1.33.0-1     amd64        simple display 
manager
un  lightdm-greeter              <none>       <none>       (no description 
available)
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter          2.0.9-1      amd64        simple display 
manager (GTK+ greeter)

Fail:
$ dpkg -l "*lightdm*"
┌── Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
│┌─ Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
││┌ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
│││ Name                         Version      Architecture Description
├┼┼─════════════════════════════─════════════─════════════─════════════════════════════════════════
ii  liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64 1.33.0-1     amd64        simple display 
manager (GObject library)
ii  lightdm                      1.33.0-1     amd64        simple display 
manager
un  lightdm-greeter              <none>       <none>       (no description 
available)
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter          2.0.9-1      amd64        simple display 
manager (GTK+ greeter)


Work:
$ dpkg -l "*lightdm*"
┌── Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
│┌─ Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
││┌ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
│││ Name                         Version      Architecture Description
├┼┼─════════════════════════════─════════════─════════════─════════════════════════════════════>
hi  liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64 1.32.0-7+b1  amd64        simple display 
manager (GObject libr>
hi  lightdm                      1.32.0-7+b1  amd64        simple display 
manager
un  lightdm-greeter              <none>       <none>       (no description 
available)
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter          2.0.9-1      amd64        simple display 
manager (GTK+ greeter)

Kind regards,
Franck

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