On 2013-12-21 18:04:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > > I've spent several hours to find what was wrong with lightdm, and > > eventually found the culprit earlier today: just the fact that the > > systemd package was installed! So, yes, systemd currently breaks things, > > even if it is not used (I don't use GNOME itself, sometimes some GNOME > > apps that work without the GNOME environment, so that in any case > > systemd is completely useless for me). > > I suspect that this is a bug of some kind in lightdm in its detection of > whether to use systemd-only features.
I don't think so: the tests CanSuspend, CanHibernate, CanReboot and CanPowerOff don't seem to return consistent results. > That said, the display managers in Debian other than kdm and gdm are not > ready for systemd at the moment. I had to switch to gdm3 to use systemd > (by which I mean booting with it) because neither slim nor lightdm worked > properly. I actually had to switch from gdm3 to lightdm because I could no longer reboot or power off the machine with the new version... apparently due to an issue with systemd: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729576 Another user at least has the same issue. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131222025846.gb12...@xvii.vinc17.org