Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-08-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Control: severity -1 important Hi! On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 23:20:58 +0200 Francesco Muzio muzi...@gmail.com wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:4.11.9-1 Severity: minor Dear maintainers, My machine (updated debian testing) has only KDM as display manager, it starts without problem after

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/02/2015 10:15 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: My patch from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754314 retains the kdmrc customisation currently present in the sysvinit script; maybe you can fold that one into your patch? Hmm, I haven't realized that the display manager's

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-03 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 09:05:17AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 04/02/2015 10:15 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: My patch from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754314 retains the kdmrc customisation currently present in the sysvinit script; maybe you can fold

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/02/2015 04:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Attaching a cleaned up revision the patch where I fixed the tab stops and added an additional line in the debian/changelog to indicate that the file debian/kdm.service was added to the source package. While reviewing my patch again I

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/10/2015 03:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: In any case, I will hopefully provide an updated kdm package in the following week that you can try at your desire. Attaching a debdiff with the proposed changes to the kde-workspace source package which will add systemd support to kdm.

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/02/2015 12:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Attaching a debdiff with the proposed changes to the kde-workspace source package which will add systemd support to kdm. Attaching a cleaned up revision the patch where I fixed the tab stops and added an additional line in the

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-04-02 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:20:06PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 04/02/2015 12:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Attaching a debdiff with the proposed changes to the kde-workspace source package which will add systemd support to kdm. Attaching a cleaned up revision the

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/10/2015 03:11 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: It actually depends on which package you reconfigure. So, if you run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm (provided that lightdm is installed) and choose kdm as your default DM, it should work. However, if you do that with dpkg-reconfigure kdm and choose kdm

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-10 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 10/01/2015 02:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: that this symlink is actually always created by the postinst script of the display manager (on Debian, Fedora uses the [Install] section of the .service file for that by setting an alias to display-manager.service) and looking at the

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread Francesco Muzio
also I think it's impossible that a soft-link /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service is created on a fresh install who only installs KDM as display-manager.service. Otherwise on the system there would be a /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service who not point to no service. -- To

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 01:18:59AM +0100, Francesco Muzio wrote: how many display managers are installed on your systems? As I said, that was a test system and there was only KDM installed, nothing else. I have to poke around a bit more. However, it seems ... if I install slim a soft link

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 10/01/2015 00:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Ok, I thoroughly analyzed your qemu image and eventually found out that the symbolic link /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service which points to /lib/systemd/system/kdm.service was missing. A simple ln -s

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/09/2015 11:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/09/2015 11:34 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: I have tried the kdm.service file in my real Debian environment and in the VM that I have shared with you, in both cases KDM will not start at boot Is kdm actually configured to be your

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 09/01/2015 15:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: After that finished, I rebooted the machine and it booted right into kdm without any issues or error messages. Whatever I did, I could*NOT* reproduce your problem - at all. it means if you type the command # journalctl --no-pager |

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: tags -1 -unreproducible Control: tags -1 patch Control: retitle -1 kdm: Please add a systemd service file On 01/09/2015 08:14 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: it means if you type the command # journalctl --no-pager | grep display-manager no output is printed ? Ok, I actually

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 09/01/2015 22:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Ok, I actually understand now what your problem is. What you are seeing there is a mere *warning* by the systemd generator for the display manager unit that there is no service file for kdm present and that systemd used different means

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/09/2015 11:34 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: I have tried the kdm.service file in my real Debian environment and in the VM that I have shared with you, in both cases KDM will not start at boot Is kdm actually configured to be your default display manager? root@vs76:~ cat

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: tags -1 unreproducible On 01/08/2015 11:49 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. I think it's a normal behaviour if kdm does not provide

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-08 Thread Francesco Muzio
I have done a test with a new installation of Debian. Yesterday I have created a minimal installation of Debian for i386 architecture with qemu. I have downloaded the latest weekly build of debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso image and I have installed it on a qcow2 image of 4GB I have

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/08/2015 10:25 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: I have downloaded the latest weekly build of debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso image and I have installed it on a qcow2 image of 4GB I have installed kde-plasma-desktop and kdm. I have put the correct kdm.service in the /lib/systemd/system/

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-08 Thread Francesco Muzio
Why did you copy the extra kdm.service file into the systemd directory? Because you have told me to do it. see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755359#10 There is something that you are fundamentally doing wrong. I assume you do a minimal installation without using tasksel

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/08/2015 11:19 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: Because I had to recreate my problem with an image as small as possible. It was a suggestion, a guess out of the dark. I didn't tell you to do it, I merely asked whether this might help in this case. I didn't know about the systemd generators at the

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-08 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 08/01/2015 23:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: I can, btw, not examine your qemu image since you did not provide me with any passwords. I would have mount it manually now and modify the passwd database but you could have just told me the password. Oops... I have forget to tell you

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/06/2015 11:58 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: Ok, next days I try to test your solution on a most recent installation of Debian For the records: I just did a clean installation of Jessie and choose KDE as the default desktop without any other desktops or display managers installed and kdm

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Franceso! kdm is missing a systemd service file. I am not sure whether this is related to your problem, but you could add the attached kdm.service file and add it to /lib/systemd/system and see if that fixes your problem. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread Francesco Muzio
ops... I have correct only the path for the var ExecStartPre Now I have done a new test with both paths updated: - I have copied the file kdm.service to /lib/systemd/system/kdm.service - I have rebooted the system kdm is not started, the output of systemctl status kdm shows me the service as

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/06/2015 07:09 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: thanks for your reply, but kdm is located at /usr/bin/kdm and not /usr/sbin/kdm Ah, true. That's actually uncommon for the display manager not to be under /usr/sbin/ as gdm3 and lightdm are. That's why I incorrectly assumed it would be true for

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/06/2015 08:59 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: I just wanted to point out a lack of compatibility between the KDM and systemd. This before to know that SDDM will be the new replacement of KDM But it works here after a fresh install. If there was an actual incompatibility with kdm on systemd,

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread Francesco Muzio
Ok, next days I try to test your solution on a most recent installation of Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ac68a1.90...@gmail.com

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/06/2015 10:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 01/06/2015 08:59 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: I just wanted to point out a lack of compatibility between the KDM and systemd. This before to know that SDDM will be the new replacement of KDM But it works here after a fresh install. If

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread Francesco Muzio
Il 06/01/2015 22:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: I presume you probably ran into this issue [1] which has been fixed in systemd 215-8. This version of systemd includes a generator which creates the necessary display manager unit file on-the-fly. I'm using a Debian testing constantly

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/06/2015 11:41 PM, Francesco Muzio wrote: In any case you can close the bug. It isn't an important bug and KDM is the past. Well, I'm not saying that I don't care. If there is actually a bug, I want to help fixing it. However, my problem is that I cannot reproduce the bug in any way which

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2015-01-06 Thread Francesco Muzio
thanks for your reply, but kdm is located at /usr/bin/kdm and not /usr/sbin/kdm with the correct kdm.service file the display manager won't start and the message about display-manager.service still exists. after a boot the command systemctl status kdm.service shows me this ● kdm.service -

Bug#755359: [kdm] systemd seem to fail to start display-manager.service

2014-07-19 Thread Francesco Muzio
Package: kdm Version: 4:4.11.9-1 Severity: minor Dear maintainers, My machine (updated debian testing) has only KDM as display manager, it starts without problem after upgrading/trasition to systemd. But in journald log I see this message systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit