[LightDM] 0.9.3 on oneiric: login then framebuffer screen with "x" cross-heir pointer

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

[this is completely off-topic on lightdm list please switch to
pkg-xfce-devel so we can fix the Xfce/Debian part]

On lun., 2011-08-29 at 10:18 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 09:21 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > [this is off-topic on lightdm list, sorry]
> > On lun., 2011-08-29 at 09:10 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> >>
> >> My users didn't want to start the session manually from the terminal, so
> >> I've removed LightDM and gone back to XDM. (Also, in Debian testing
> >> there was an XDM / task-xfce-desktop interdependency that was causing
> >> some problems with package management (aptitude) after I removed XDM.
> >> Going back to XDM seems to have eliminated those issues as well.
> >
> > You can safely remove task-xfce-desktop, it's just a metapackage which
> > pulls the Xfce task. Next upload will switch xdm to lightdm.
> 
> I did remove task-xfce-desktop on those systems. It was after I did that 
> that those systems stopped loading Xfce.

Check that nothing else has been removed by aptitude.
> 
> And, even though I updated aptitude, it didn't switch from xdm to 
> lightdm. When I re-installed task-xfce-desktop, xdm was pulled as a 
> dependency.

Yes, as I said, the update has been done in tasksel repository but it
will take time before it reach testing and images are starting to be
made with this change.
> 
> I wonder if there's a problem just with these specific installations 
> that is peculiar to the images I used for the installation -- an i386 
> and an AMD64 image from about 08/17. Is something like that possible.
> 
> With the problems I've seen with these two particular systems, I'm 
> tempted to re-install them both from scratch.

Not sure it'll do anything.
> 
> Am I to take it that, if I do that now (netinst), the xfce desktop will 
> pull LightDM as the default DM?

No, not yet.
> 
> >>
> >> I am NOT seeing the problem with LightDM starting the Xfce session on
> >> systems that were installed back when GDM (version 2) was the default DM
> >> for Xfce. But all of the systems on which XDM was made a dependency of
> >> Xfce have had to be reverted to XDM.
> >
> > This is weird, but without debug info (especially logs) from lightdm,
> > I'm not sure one can do anything.
> >
> 
> Yes, I understand. Unfortunately, I didn't think to collect the logs, 
> and I wound up purging the packages (and the information I need to 
> correct the problem) on both of the systems that were behaving this 
> before I thought about it. It was the weekend, and everyone was tired 
> and cranky.

Ok, now, please do:

* install task-xfce-desktop
* install lightdm
* switch default greeter to lightdm (dpkg-reconfigure lightdm should
propose you that)

When LightDM starts, select “Xfce session” in the dropdown menu.

Does it work?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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