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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

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 there was an actual
> incompatibility with kdm on systemd, this would be actually a serious
> bug. But that isn't the case as you can see:

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.

On a Jessie machine where there is just kdm installed, you still get:

root@vs76:~# ls -l
/run/systemd/generator/kdm.service.d/50-kdm-\$x-display-manager.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 Jan  6 22:29
/run/systemd/generator/kdm.service.d/50-kdm-$x-display-manager.conf
root@vs76:~# cat
/run/systemd/generator/kdm.service.d/50-kdm-\$x-display-manager.conf
# Automatically generated by systemd-insserv-generator

[Unit]
Wants=x-display-manager.target
Before=x-display-manager.target
root@vs76:~# systemctl status kdm.service
● kdm.service - LSB: X display manager for KDE
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/kdm)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/kdm.service.d
           └─50-kdm-$x-display-manager.conf
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-01-06 22:28:26 CET; 6min ago
   CGroup: /system.slice/kdm.service
           ├─845 /usr/bin/kdm -config /var/run/kdm/kdmrc
           ├─848 /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -br -nolisten tcp -auth
/var/run/xauth/A:0-DjwwPb
           ├─913 -:0
           └─935 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet

Jan 06 22:28:26 vs76 kdm[805]: Starting K Display Manager: kdm.
Jan 06 22:28:29 vs76 kdm_greet[935]: Cannot load
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No suc...ctory
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root@vs76:~#

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771287

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