Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-25 Thread Didier Roche
Actually, I think we can settle it that way (which would help fixing fixing bug #770633: Everytime we have a service which provided an alternative, we declare an Alias=this alternative.service name. Then, we patch systemctl to update the alternative file (if it exists) on this alias name for

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-24 Thread Didier Roche
Le 21/11/2014 22:46, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : reassign 770404 lxdm thanks On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:01:50PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: This looks wrong. I think it might be caused by this in lxdm.service: [Install] Alias=display-manager.service Neither gdm3 nor lightdm have that,

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-24 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 09:31 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: Le 21/11/2014 22:46, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : reassign 770404 lxdm thanks On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:01:50PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: This looks wrong. I think it might be caused by this in lxdm.service: [Install]

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-24 Thread Didier Roche
Le 24/11/2014 10:01, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 09:31 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: Le 21/11/2014 22:46, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : reassign 770404 lxdm thanks On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:01:50PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: This looks wrong. I think it might be caused by this in

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-22 Thread Andriy Grytsenko
Thank you very much, everyone, for all that detailed comments. I remove that Alias statement and hope that fixes the problem. Reopen the ticket if something is still wrong, please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 at 09:27:57 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Aehm, since yesterday or so ligthdm does not start anymore, only updates related were systemd, lightdm hasn't changed. To be clear about the situation, you have lightdm, lxdm and xdm installed, of which you intend to use lightdm;

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-21 Thread Sjoerd Simons
reassign 770404 lxdm thanks On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:01:50PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: This looks wrong. I think it might be caused by this in lxdm.service: [Install] Alias=display-manager.service Neither gdm3 nor lightdm have that, which suggests that it isn't meant to be

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-21 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Simon McVittie wrote: Norbert, if I'm correct, then you should be able to fix this on your system with `dpkg-reconfigure lightdm` or by correcting the symlink by hand. Indeed, or some systemctl status display-manager.service followed by some fixes was what it fixed it for

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-21 Thread Norbert Preining
clone 770404 -1 reassign -1 systemd retitle -1 more useful error messages severity -1 wishlist Hi coming back to the original bug report, I have two wishlist items: * a way to force systemd to start a service regardless of tests * more decent error messages, in this case it was Error:

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-20 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Norbert Preining wrote: Package: systemd Version: 215-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Aehm, since yesterday or so ligthdm does not start anymore, only updates related were systemd, lightdm hasn't changed. $ systemctl status lightdm ●

Bug#770404: systemd: breaks lightdm, does not start anymore

2014-11-20 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Norbert Preining wrote: Package: systemd Version: 215-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Aehm, since yesterday or so ligthdm does not start anymore, only updates related were systemd,