On 09/12/2011 07:46 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On sam., 2011-09-10 at 22:13 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
This time I did not remove LightDM. I simply installed XDM, rebooted,
and logged on so that I could send this message with the appropriate
attachments. I hope that they will be of some use, and I'll avoid
removing LightDM so that I can try any experiments / data gathering that
you might suggest.
It did take rather longer this time to see this problem appear. The
previous installations of LightDM resulted in this problem appearing in
less than two days -- and that was three times in a row.
Ok, so indeed lightdm.log shows errors, but it doesn't really say
where/how. Other logs aren't really helpful either, but could you tell
us the timing information?
I'm afraid I'm not certain what you mean by "timing information", but
I'll try to provide something useful.
The problem installation was created on a Lenovo T520i from an AMD64
Debian testing businesscard daily build image burned to CD-R in
Mid-August. XDM was the default desktop manager. LightDM became
available in the official repositories (I only use Debian main and don't
even use any non-free firmware.), and I decided to try it at your
suggestion. I installed LightDM and removed XDM.
It worked -- for two days. Then the desktop locked up on me during a
long session -- no response to keyboard or mouse. I had to force the
system down by depressing the power button for 5 seconds. When I
restarted the system, I was unable to log on to my primary user account
-- the account I was using when the lockup occurred -- via LightDM.
However, I was able to log on to a second user account. (I always create
a "spare" account on my systems.)
I was able to log back on to the primary account by completely
eliminating all contents of ~/.cache and ~/.config, but I ran into the
same lockup issue again within a day or so.
I installed XDM, purged LightDM, and everything was fine.
Over the next couple of weeks I re-installed LightDM two more times.
Each time I did this the system would work well for about two days, and
then it would hard-lock on me again, and I would re-install XDM and
purge LightDM.
Each time this happened I would find a huge .xsession-errors file (about
500 K) but didn't follow up with any real research because I just wanted
the system to work -- so kept reverting to XDM each time I had a
failure. That's when I contacted you about the problem.
You made suggestions about my providing dpkg -l output and some logs. I
provided some of the information you requested, but I had eradicated
much of the data by purging LightDM from my system.
I finally had some time to try to make myself useful by getting the data
you had requested, and I installed LightDM again on 09/02. I figured I'd
use the system until it failed again and try to gather some useful
diagnostic data to send you. But this time the system kept working
properly for over a week!
In the interim I did find a way to stop the "co" respawning too fast
errors that I had reported by editing /etc/inittab. (The installer
apparently creates the line I commented out in that file when it detects
that it is installing the OS on a hypervisor-capable system?) I don't
know whether or not the elimination of those errors could have had
anything to do with the system taking longer to get to the point of
failure this time around.
So the system failed after a long session on 09/10. This time I gathered
the dmesg, syslog, lightdm.log, and .xsession-errors data that I sent
you most recently from tty1 before doing anything else to the system.
At some point I know that I sent you the dpkg -l output fora Panasonic
CF-R3 sub-notebook which has not been failing to log on. The
significance of this is that the Panasonic system was installed from the
same daily build / version of Debian testing as the one used on the
Lenovo T520i, but it is an i386 image instead of an AMD64 one.
After gathering the data you had requested, I have re-installed XDM, but
I have left LightDM installed on the system in case you wish me to try
some troubleshooting.
Best regards,
Gilbert
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