[LightDM] lightdm fails to stop & can't change login

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 01:55:33 PDT 2012


Hi Grant,

Firstly it depends on what greeter you are using, you will find more
information in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log and
/var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log (please attach here).

On 17 August 2012 20:50, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using lightdm for about a year now and with all the versions
> I've tried, Gentoo prints a message about lightdm and xdm failing to
> stop if I reboot from the lightdm menu or the xfce4 menu.  If I issue
> 'reboot' as root from an xterm within xfce4, lightdm stops fine.  I
> couldn't find anything in the logs, but in which one of syslog-ng's
> logs should I look?
>
> I'm also wonder if there's a way to switch login usernames when I'm
> being prompted for a password by lightdm in case I mistyped the
> username?
>
> - Grant
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