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Re: can't automatically launch lxde



On 04/24/2015 02:47 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:00:31 -0400
James <bjlockie@lockie.ca> wrote:



On 04/22/2015 10:42 PM, James wrote:


On 04/21/2015 11:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote:

On 21/04/15 08:21 PM, James wrote:

I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run
automatically.
I need to login as me and then do sudo kdm (sudo lxdm doesn't
work).



It sounds like kdm isn't starting automatically, so you probably
don't have any gui starting (is this correct?).

Correct.

You probably have kdm or lxdm installed but not both, which is why
only one starts. Lxdm is not a Debian package so if you are
running Debian, that would explain it.

I am running Debian Jessie and I have lxde 8.
I think I just installed the lxde package.
https://wiki.debian.org/LXDE#LXDE_in_Debian


The easiest way to fix the problem may be to:

sudo apt-get purge kdm
sudo apt-get install kdm

This should fix any corruption that may have occurred and should
set up kdm to run on startup. If you prefer lxdm, simply change
the install line to lxdm (assuming that you are running Ubuntu).

sudo apt-get install lxde
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lxde is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I purged kdm and still no GUI starts, I had to use startx.

What happens when you do "sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service"? And
what's in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log?

Petter


sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service

Nothing happens.
There are no entries in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log

sudo systemctl status lightdm.service says:

lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2015-04-24 19:08:31 EDT; 1min 57s ago 
     Docs: man:lightdm(1)
Process: 1510 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/sbin/lightdm" ] (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) 

Apr 24 19:08:31 cheetah systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
Apr 24 19:08:31 cheetah systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state. Apr 24 19:08:31 cheetah systemd[1]: lightdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. 
Apr 24 19:08:31 cheetah systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
Apr 24 19:08:31 cheetah systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state.\
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