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Message #35786
[Bug 876031] [NEW] lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
Public bug reported:
In Oneiric it appears if lightdm fails for some reason the user is left with a set of the previous startup messages
on the console, no apparent login prompt and nothing telling them what to do. It also doesn't provide
any diagnostics on that console for anyone remotely trying to help them.
Ideally it should on failure:
1) Switch to vt with a login prompt
2) Output a line or two saying that it knows lightdm failed - preferably pointing them at the log file.
3) If it can have a pattern to check for the X server itself having failed and being the reason lightdm failed
then it would be useful to display it.
Dave
** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876031
Title:
lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
In Oneiric it appears if lightdm fails for some reason the user is left with a set of the previous startup messages
on the console, no apparent login prompt and nothing telling them what to do. It also doesn't provide
any diagnostics on that console for anyone remotely trying to help them.
Ideally it should on failure:
1) Switch to vt with a login prompt
2) Output a line or two saying that it knows lightdm failed - preferably pointing them at the log file.
3) If it can have a pattern to check for the X server itself having failed and being the reason lightdm failed
then it would be useful to display it.
Dave
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Follow ups
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Rolf Leggewie, 2014-12-03
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Launchpad Bug Tracker, 2011-12-03
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Launchpad Bug Tracker, 2011-12-03
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Bryce Harrington, 2011-12-03
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Bryce Harrington, 2011-11-04
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Bryce Harrington, 2011-11-04
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Robert Ancell, 2011-10-27
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Dave Gilbert, 2011-10-19
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Robert Ancell, 2011-10-19
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[Bug 876031] Re: lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Sebastien Bacher, 2011-10-18
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[Bug 876031] [NEW] lightdm could do with showing some diagnostics on text console
From: Dave Gilbert, 2011-10-16
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