On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> In order to try to understand what is possible wrong, I tried to run > lightdm in my porevious BE > that contained thed November 2017 bits. When I enter the following command > a black screen pops up > that disappears immediately and I see some messages on the terminal: > > $ /usr/sbin/lightdm --test-mode debug > > ** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files > > ** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: > The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files > > ** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not enumerate user data directory > /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied > lightdm: Got tty: '/dev/dtlocal' > ** (process:1013): WARNING **: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: > The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files > > ** (lightdm:1009): WARNING **: Could not create user data directory > /var/lib/lightdm-data/apostolo: Error creating directory: Permission > denied > > $ root@adalind:/var/lib# ls -l > total 21 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Απρ 21 2016 dbus > drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 3 Νοε 1 2016 freeipmi > drwxrwx--T 13 root gdm 15 Δεκ 28 1986 gdm > drwxrwx--T 4 root lightdm 5 Μαΐ 4 18:32 lightdm-data > drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 2 Ιαν 22 2017 smartmontools > > > Note that when I tried to run as root the command above it worked... > Could not enumerate user data directory /var/lib/lightdm-data: Permission denied If running the thing as root set the permissions incorrectly may be the fix is not too difficult. > > A.S. > > ---------------------- > Apostolos Syropoulos > Xanthi, Greece > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss