On lun., 2011-08-22 at 12:29 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > If I leave the selector at the default session and log in, lightdm seems > to just exit X entirely, leaving me at a black console screen with a > cursor. According to ps, lightdm is running, but has no children; no X > server is running.
Can you confirm the default session is XClient, and can you look in /var/log/lightdm.log and report any issue there (maybe attach the log, check nothing private is present before). > > If I select xfce session, it logs me in ok. > > joey@gnu:~>sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager > There are 6 choices for the alternative x-session-manager (providing > /usr/bin/x-session-manager). > > Selection Path Priority Status > ------------------------------------------------------------ > 0 /usr/bin/gnome-session 50 auto mode > 1 /usr/bin/gnome-session 50 manual mode > 2 /usr/bin/lxsession 49 manual mode > 3 /usr/bin/openbox-session 40 manual mode > 4 /usr/bin/startlxde 50 manual mode > 5 /usr/bin/startxfce4 50 manual mode > * 6 /usr/bin/xfce4-session 40 manual mode If you use the 5 one, does it give something? Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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