Have you tried another dm? XDM or KDM for example? Does it crash X or just return to a login prompt without restarting X?
Daniel. On 29/03/15 13:46, Craig Sanders wrote: > can anyone think of any reason why on one of my systems I can't login > with lightdm? as soon as I do (with any account, including a brand new > one without any weird/old/obsolete dotfiles), it seems to login OK but > then logs out again immediately. > > my normal desktop environment is xfce, but the same thing happens if i > tell lightdm to use lxde or gnome or anything else. > > logging in on a text VT and running startx works perfectly, and is how > i've had to login for the last few months. > > I have four other very similar systems where lightdm works without a > problem, including a mythtv box set to auto-login as the mythtv user. > two of them are sysvinit, two of them are systemd. > > i can't see anything in the logs to indicate any problem, even the > auth.log just shows that the session was started and then the session > terminated immediately afterwards. any hints on what to look for in > the logs or where/how to increase debug log levels would also be > appreciated. > > craig > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
