[LightDM] splash screen only problem

Vitaly Kosenko vitaly.kosenko at gmail.com
Mon Nov 17 18:58:23 PST 2014


And where do I get liveusb for arm rk3288?

2014-11-18 7:51 GMT+05:00 Vitaly Kosenko <vitaly.kosenko at gmail.com>:

> Actually this is disabling the whole lightdm, so you disable everything.
>> You want to actually choose your session type from the LightDM greeter.
>> Depending on the greeter you should have a choice to switch between the
>> installed sessions, as long as there are multiple.
>
>
> I am using Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> If I fix this how can I choose to load into terminal instaed of lightdm
> sessions?
>
> 2014-11-18 5:35 GMT+05:00 Andre Klärner <kandre at ak-online.be>:
>
>> Hi Vitaly,
>>
>> On Mon 17.11.2014 19:14:58, Robert Ancell wrote:
>> > On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 01:15:00 Vitaly Kosenko <vitaly.kosenko at gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello! I used lxdm and want to try awesome window manager. To turn off
>> > > autostart of lxdm I did:
>> > >
>> > > echo  "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override
>>
>> Actually this is disabling the whole lightdm, so you disable everything.
>>
>> You want to actually choose your session type from the LightDM greeter.
>> Depending on the greeter you should have a choice to switch between the
>> installed sessions, as long as there are multiple.
>>
>> > > After reboot I see only splash screen and nothing else. Ctrl+Alt+Del
>> only
>> > > available for reboot. How can I move to terminal to remove
>> > > /etc/init/lightdm.override? And how can I turn off autostart of lxdm
>> > > correctly and boot only with console?
>>
>> Boot into the rescue mode from the bootloader - or use a LiveCD/USB drive
>> to access your root filesystem without booting it. Also you could try
>> SSH'ing into your machine, as longs as you have another device on the same
>> network as your machine and the SSH server installed. If you have specific
>> questions about this you can ask me off-list (as this list is about
>> LightDM).
>>
>> > What OS / distribution are you using? This question relates to how that
>> > distribution starts services like LightDM so you will probably get a
>> better
>> > answer asking on their mailing lists. Service startup is outside the
>> > control of the LightDM project.
>>
>> Sounds a lot like Ubuntu - at least the first few google search results
>> for
>> lightdm.override were on askubuntu and co.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andre
>>
>> --
>> Andre Klärner
>>
>
>
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