Re: odd passwd problem.
On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> But seat0-greeter.log(s) are all this:
> ** Message: 13:37:04.194: Starting lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6 (Dec 27
> 2018, 16:15:47)
> ** Message: 13:37:04.203: [Configuration] Reading
> file: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/01_debian.conf
> ** Message: 13:37:04.204: [Configuration] Reading
> file: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
> ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:424): WARNING **: 13:37:06.062: [PIDs] Failed to
> execute command: upstart
I don't know what upstart is exactly, but I don't believe it's the
problem here.
You might look in /var/log/auth.log for other clues.
One kubuntu guy with a similar symptomatology removed (for safety's sake
you can just move the files out of the way by renaming them)
.Xauthority .ICEauthority .cache
then
dpkg-reconfigured lightdm
xfce4 (actually, in his case, kubuntu)
and rebooted.
Probably couldn't hurt. But might not help.
You could try another display manager if all else fails, or, as I see
suggested elsewhere (the ineluctable "just use Mutt" reflex) startx.
> (lightdm-gtk-greeter:424): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:37:10.850: Drawing a gadget
> with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node
> menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)
I get this spam, too, but it's nothing but that.
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