>>>> Has anyone set up lightdm? I'm using it with the default config file >>>> but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. gdm works fine. >>>> Any ideas? >>> >>> I'm not using lightdm, but my understanding is that it's as minimalist >>> as you can get while still technically using a display manager. Check >>> into its configuration in /etc/config, etc. Find out exactly what it's >>> using (launching) for an xinitrc. >>> >>> Also check out ~/.X*, and see if there are any user-local errors or logs of >>> use. >> >> Thanks, got it working by recompiling udev as mentioned in the last >> comment here: >> >> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/09/18/lightdm-on-gentoo-artwork-needed/ >> >> - Grant > > It stopped working. I have the same problem described here: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395327 > > It hangs with this from /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: > > DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0 > > It does this on 2 of my systems but succeeds on the other. The next > lines on the successful system are: > > DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager > DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 > > The fix described in the bug is to add dbus to use in /etc/init.d/xdm > but dbus is already in there. dbus is currently started on all 3 > systems. Any ideas? > > - Grant
This definitely has something to do with dbus but I can't put my finger on it. I added dbus to the boot runlevel and lightdm came up fine after a reboot. I removed dbus from all runlevels and rebooted it's still working. I don't get it. I rebooted many times this morning and it never worked once. - Grant
