Re: Xorg window manager stopped working after upgrade to kernel 6.16.3+deb13-amd64
On 18/11/2025 14:57, Peter Milesson wrote:
There is absolutely nothing in the Xorg.0.log (~/.local/share/xorg/
Xorg.0.log).
"Absolutely nothing" is a bit ambiguous. I am still on bookworm and in
my case path is /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old (without .old it should be new
LightDM greeter session). I hope, you checked file modification time.
There is nothing in any log indicating non standard
behavior, or errors. There are messages of the session startup in the
journal, and then messages from session shut down, nothing in between.
Have you compared *user* session log with the case when ~/ is a local
directory?
I expect that errors outside of systemd scope should appear in
~/.xsession-errors. There is a chance that something is logged to
/var/log/lightdm.
Xorg.0.log is also properly stored in ~/.local/share/xorg, which proves
that the home folder is mounted rw for the user.
I would rather suspect something behind regular file read-write: special
files, locks, etc.
Ideas to try:
- $HOME on NFS instead of CIFS
- CIFS mounted from command line instead of PAM plugin
- Another lightweight session like fluxbox just to test if the issue is
specific to LXDE
Perhaps there is a way to enable more verbose LXDE logs.
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