Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 11:03:15PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> ** (process:734): WARNING **: 22:32:38.355: Error reading existing
> Xauthority: Failed to open file ?/var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority?: Permission
> denied
> Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority
> /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied
Does that file exist? If so, ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority
If not, ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm
Hell, just do both regardless of whether the file currently exists.
It's one command with two lines of output. Should be the first thing
you do.
See if you can figure out which user lightdm is trying to run as.
Try to make it so that user can write that file, either by removing
the existing file, or chowning it, or fixing the permissions on the
directory. Whatever is indicated by the lightdm changelog. Hopefully
there's a note in the lightdm changelog about this. Or in NEWS.
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