[LightDM] Trying to install LightDM 1.16.3 on RHEL 7.0

[Robert Ancell]

The other things to check are:
/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
Does your system have any access controls (apparmor / SELinux) that might
require you to allow access to owning a D-Bus service.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 09:00 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you running LightDM as a user? It has to run as root. Normally it is
> started as a service (i.e. by systemd).
>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 06:31 Lutz Christoph <
> lchristoph at extern.creativedata.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> It was no problem to configure/make/make install LightDM 1.16.3. But I'm
>> struggling to get it running. I've snarfed the systemd service definition
>> from the 1.6 RPMs I found, and that works. But lightdm exists after writing
>> this to STDERR (it appears in /var/log/messages, fortunately):
>>
>>
>> Failed to use bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager, do you have
>> appropriate permissions?
>>
>>
>> I tried strace-ing, but are only some binary messages being exchanged
>> before this, and I have no idea how to tackle this. I.e. I have not the
>> faintest about DBus.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas or hints how to proceed?
>>
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