Bug#974943: lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.8-2 fails to start at boot
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Version: 2.0.8-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: denis.dupeyron@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
After updating from lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.8-1 to 2.0.8-2 lightdm fails to
start at boot.
journalctl -b -1 -u lightdm.service
-- Logs begin at Sun 2020-09-27 21:25:17 MDT, end at Mon 2020-11-16 13:52:50
MST. --
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 lightdm[461]: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart
counter is at 1.
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Nov 16 10:26:13 X1 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 lightdm[534]: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart
counter is at 2.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 lightdm[556]: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart
counter is at 3.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 lightdm[563]: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 10:26:14 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart
counter is at 4.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 lightdm[571]: Error getting user list from
org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart
counter is at 5.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too
quickly.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Triggering OnFailure=
dependencies.
Nov 16 10:26:15 X1 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed to enqueue OnFailure=
job, ignoring: Unit plymouth-quit.service not found.
cat /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log.old
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.26.0, UID=0 PID=548
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from
/usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module unity
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local
(GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats
[+0.00s] DEBUG: New seat added from logind: seat0
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Loading properties from config section Seat:*
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0 has property CanMultiSession=no
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Could not run plymouth --ping: Failed to execute child process
“plymouth” (No such file or directory)
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+0.00s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Writing X server authority to
/var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.00s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Launching X Server
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Launching process 553: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth
/var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.00s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path
/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.01s] WARNING: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Loading user config from /etc/lightdm/users.conf
[+0.01s] DEBUG: User calchan added
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Process 553 exited with return value 1
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: X server stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 0: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1
When subsequently starting it as root with `systemctl restart lightdm.service`
it starts correctly.
Since the only relevant package which had been updated was lightdm-gtk-greeter
I tried downgrading it to its previous version, 2.0.8-1, and that worked around
the issue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on:
ii libayatana-indicator3-7 0.8.3-1
ii libc6 2.31-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.2-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.23-2
ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.26.0-7
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.12-1
Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.38.0-1
pn desktop-base <none>
pn gnome-themes-extra <none>
ii policykit-1 0.105-29
lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed:
[greeter]
background=#404040
user-background=false
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=288
xft-hintstyle=full
xft-rgba=rgb
indicators=~host;~spacer;~clock;~spacer;~power
clock-format=%A, %d %B %Y - %H:%M:%S %Z
screensaver-timeout=10
-- no debconf information
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