Re: trixie: can't log in from lightdm.
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:43:43 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> I rebooted, and tried to log in. I got a very brief message, then was
> thrown back to lightdm.
>
> I can go to a console and log in to my user account. I can then run
> startx, and I am back in my usual session.
>
> I had made some changes to lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, but have backed
> those out entirely. Similar changes work fine on other systems, and I
> got the same failure to log in when I had those changes made.
I solved that problem. lightdm has the options of default session, X11
session, and Wayland session. It had somehow been set to Wayland.
Probably operator error. When I set it to default, it worked. Phew!
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