I've been reading lots of posts about this problem regarding previous versions of Ubuntu, but they don't seem to work in my case.
At boot and shown in /var/log/boot.log the daemon /usr/sbin/lightdm, simply shuts down – seemingly without any obvious error, leaving me stuck with the "Kubuntu" grinning at me. Then, if I fire up a terminal, log in and perform a "service lightdm start" it will start perfectly.
I've tried some "ugly hacks" to make it start up, such as adding a bottom line in the init-script "/etc/init.d/lightdm" service lightdm start or /etc/init.d/lightdm start, but still it will not start at boot. All other displaymanagers (gdm and kdm) are uninstalled.
Any ideas?
#!/bin/sh
# Largely adapted from xdm's init script:
# Copyright 1998-2002, 2004, 2005 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>.
# Copyright 2006 Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>
#
# This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
# or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
# the Debian operating system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL; if
# not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street,
# Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: lightdm
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $named acpid hal
# Should-Stop: $named
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start lightdm
### END INIT INFO
set -e
HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=
# To start lightdm even if it is not the default display manager, change
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false."
# Also overridable from command line like:
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false /etc/init.d/lightdm start
[ -z "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" ] && HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true
DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/lightdm
PIDFILE=/var/run/lightdm.pid
if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
. /etc/default/locale
export LANG LANGUAGE
fi
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
SSD_START_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --name $(basename $DAEMON) --startas $DAEMON -- -d"
SSD_STOP_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --name $(basename $DAEMON) --retry TERM/5/TERM/5"
case "$1" in
start)
if [ "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" = "true" ] &&
[ -e $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE ] &&
[ "$(cat $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE)" != "/usr/bin/lightdm" -a "$(cat $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE)" != "/usr/sbin/lightdm" ]; then
echo "Not starting X display manager (lightdm); it is not the default" \
"display manager."
else
log_daemon_msg "Starting X display manager" "lightdm"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet $SSD_START_ARGS \
|| log_progress_msg "already running"
log_end_msg 0
fi
;;
restart)
[ -f $PIDFILE ] && /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
[ -f $PIDFILE ] && exit 1
/etc/init.d/lightdm start
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping X display manager" "lightdm"
if ! [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
log_progress_msg "not running ($PIDFILE not found)"
else
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet $SSD_STOP_ARGS
SSD_RES=$?
if [ $SSD_RES -eq 1 ]; then
log_progress_msg "not running"
fi
if [ $SSD_RES -eq 2 ]; then
log_progress_msg "not responding to TERM signals"
else
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
log_progress_msg "(removing stale $PIDFILE)"
rm $PIDFILE
fi
fi
fi
log_end_msg 0
;;
force-reload)
/etc/init.d/lightdm restart
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/lightdm {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Best Answer
Now when I study the /var/log/Xorg.0.log there are a few errors:
It was resolved in two steps:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
and then in the same directory,sudo ln -s /usr/lib/fglrx/dri/fglrx_dri.so
.Unfortunately lightdm does still not start at boot :(
However executing the following commands in textmode and possibly using the flag
-f
were the first step of resolving the problem:The final step that fully resolved the problem was to edit in
/etc/init.d/lightdm
, where the line:was changed to,
After a reboot, lightdm starts up nicely:)