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prikhi / lightdm-mini-greeter

A Minimal, Configurable, Single-User GTK3 LightDM Greeter
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Hangs on blank screen #50

Closed jackwoodside closed 4 years ago

jackwoodside commented 5 years ago

When I turn on my compter, once lightdm starts it simply hangs on a blank screen with a blinking underscore for about a minute, after which I can change tty and continue using the computer after logging in and using startx.

Here's the result of lightdm --test-mode -d

[+0.00s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.30.0, UID=0 PID=1922
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /usr/local/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration dirs from /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Loading configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using Xephyr for X servers
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module local
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.00s] DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ?gio-vfs?
[+0.00s] DEBUG: Monitoring logind for seats
[+0.01s] DEBUG: New seat added from logind: seat0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Loading properties from config section Seat:*
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating greeter session
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Creating display server of type x
[+0.01s] DEBUG: posix_spawn avoided (fd close requested) 
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-1.log
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Writing X server authority to /run/lightdm/root/:1
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Launching X Server
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Launching process 1928: /usr/bin/Xephyr :1 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:1 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.01s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Waiting for ready signal from X server :1
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Loading users from org.freedesktop.Accounts
[+0.01s] DEBUG: User /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 added
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Process 1928 exited with return value 1
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 1: X server stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+0.02s] DEBUG: XServer 1: Removing X server authority /run/lightdm/root/:1
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Display server stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping session
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping; greeter display server failed to start
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Required seat has stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 1
jackwoodside commented 5 years ago

Hmm, it seems like this was happening because the font name I'd used in the config file wasn't valid. Is it possible for invalid config options to return to a default option to prevent this?

prikhi commented 4 years ago

Do you remember what you had put for the font option? Did it need to be surrounded in quotes or something?

jackwoodside commented 4 years ago

I had quotes already, just mistyped the font (I think I missed a hyphen or something).

prikhi commented 4 years ago

Hmm, when I enter an invalid font, the greeter still loads up for me, just with what I assume is GTKs default font.

I know it's been a while since you opened this, but if you can come up w/ a config to reproduce this, I might be able to fix it. Otherwise, I'm not sure where to poke around :man_shrugging:

jackwoodside commented 4 years ago

Actually thinking back, I'm not sure what it was, as it later turned out I still had the font wrong, and was using the default font for a while. Perhaps I missed a quote or something, but it was a long time ago, and my lightdm configs aren't in my dotfiles so I don't have any record of them, so I'm not sure I'd be able to reproduce it.

prikhi commented 4 years ago

Alrighty, I'm just gonna close this out then if that sounds good to you.