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[Jason Conti <860003@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The greeters were moved to /usr/sbin but the PATH only contains
/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin. They used to be
in libexecdir which is manually added to the path in
session.c:session_start.

The greeter log at ~/.cache/lightdm/log/:1-greeter.log contains:

exec: 33: lightdm-gtk-greeter: not found

which is from /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session. As a workaround
until this is fixed, adding /usr/sbin to PATH before the exec on line 33
in that file will allow the greeter to start.

This isn't an issue when lightdm runs normally because /usr/sbin is part
of the environment received from pam, but some of the setup is skipped
in the --test-mode session, and in the log above the pam environment is
empty.

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Title:
  running LightDM in test mode doesn't work

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM, I should be able to
  run lightdm --test-mode in a console. However, when I try that, I
  first get this error:

  matthijs@Simba:~$ lightdm --test-mode
  Running inside an X server requires Xephyr to be installed but it cannot be found.  Please install it or update your PATH environment variable.

  When I then install the xserver-xephyr package and try again, a small
  window opens for less than a second and then closes again. No errors,
  no testing environment. Nothing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 26 22:01:52 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (3 days ago)

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