Bug#814394: xserver-xorg-legacy: Fails to start xserver after upgrade to 1.18.1

[Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau wrote:

Hi,

>> startx does not longer work after upgrade; `grep EE Xorg.log' shows:
>>
>>    [  1463.840] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
> 
> X requires logind. 

What for?  Why xserver-xorg-*-legacy* needs to use this systemd stuff?


> Please provide more details about your setup.

I had dummy systemd and libpam-systemd created by equiv (to make few
packages like gnome-settings-demon or lokalize happy), however I've just
removed them:

/home/robert> LC_ALL=C dpkg -l *systemd*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version         Architecture    Description
+++-====================-===============-===============-==============================================
un  libpam-systemd       <none>          <none>          (no description
available)
ii  libsystemd0:i386     229-1           i386            systemd utility
library
un  systemd              <none>          <none>          (no description
available)
un  systemd-sysv         <none>          <none>          (no description
available)

(Unfortunately I couldn't remove libsystemd0, because more packages
depend on it, including xserver packages).

However without systemd, and with the following versions of xorg
packages everything seems to work correctly:

/home/robert> dpkg -l *xserver-xorg* | grep ^ii
ii  xserver-xorg                   1:7.7+13     i386         X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core              2:1.18.1-1   i386         Xorg X
server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev       1:2.10.1-1   i386         X.Org X
server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd         1:1.8.1-1+b1 i386         X.Org X
server -- keyboard input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse       1:1.9.1-1+b1 i386         X.Org X
server -- mouse input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-legacy            2:1.18.0-3   i386         setuid root
Xorg server wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev       1:0.4.4-1+b4 i386         X.Org X
server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mach64      6.9.5-1+b1   i386         X.Org X
server -- ATI Mach64 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-r128        6.10.0-1+b1  i386         X.Org X
server -- ATI r128 display driver

However when I try to upgrade xserver-xorg-legacy to 1.18.1, X server
does not start any longer, and shows the errors  sent in my initial bug
report.

Regards
robert