Re: Can't start lightdm.

[john.boyer@abilitiessoft.org]

Hi Samuel,

Well, lightdm and Mate started normally when I rebooted the machine about a day later. ODD! 
Next time something like that hapens I will try systemctl restart lightdm of course as root.

Thanks for the info.
John

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> john.boyer@abilitiessoft.org, le jeu. 16 juil. 2020 18:23:05 -0500, a ecrit:
> > This afternoon there was a momentary power failure. My UPS failed also. After rebooting I got the message Screen not in text mode. Only tty7 is affected. 
> 
> Which means it's only brltty which is running, and orca is not managing
> to start, which is surprising for a mere power failure.
> 
> You can try to make sure that /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/80_orca-dm-wrapper.conf still contains
> 
> [SeatDefaults]
> greeter-wrapper=/usr/bin/orca-dm-wrapper
> 
> as documented in 
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#lightdm_accessibility
> 
> Samuel
> 

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