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[Bug 842194] Re: greeter doesn't start "failed to load session file"

 

Closing this bug. While you can always generate invalid configuration
the conf.d support means this should not be possible without specific
modification by a sysadmin. If invalid configuration occurs the correct
behaviour is for lightdm to exit with error and a system level tool to
handle this (i.e. warn / prompt the user to fix the configuration).

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Title:
  greeter doesn't start "failed to load session file"

Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  As of today, lightdm on oneiric doesn't show a login screen.  I have
  verified the greeters are installed so this is different to bug
  816646.  The most likely lines in the log seem to be

    Failed to load session file /usr/share/xgreeters/.desktop: No such file or directory
    Failed to start greeter 
    Stopping display

  I'm just left at a text screen with various stair-stepped log
  messages.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.9.3-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep  6 08:32:54 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-23 (12 days ago)

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