Bug#992592: lightdm fails to start after update to bullseye (missing '/var/lib/lightdm/data')
Package: lightdm
Version: 1.26.0-7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: sanda@lyx.org
Dear Maintainer,
updating debian to bullseye killed access to my desktop environment.
It was actually stretch->buster and then (after appropriate reboots etc.)
buster->bullseye, so not sure which of two steps broke it.
lightdm used to be default DM and was not working anymore after the update.
Checking logs with
lightdm --test-mode --debug
showed critical line about missing /var/lib/lightdm/data like in bugs
#947319 and #931335.
apt-get purge lightdm
apt-get install lightdm
fixed the situation (purge was clearly doing bunch of stuff in /etc/
which should be probably part of distro-update procedures(?).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii dbus 1.12.20-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii libaudit1 1:3.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii libgcrypt20 1.8.7-6
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 247.3-6
ii libpam0g 1.4.0-9
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter] 2.0.8-2
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+22
Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii accountsservice 0.6.55-3
ii upower 0.99.11-2
pn xserver-xephyr <none>
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
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