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I think it was Xserver-xorg that I installed. I don't know if that's the same thing. I forget what I did after that, but I got sign-in working. But the Synaptic that I installed doesn't prompt me for pswd and just disappears. Anyway, it's all in the past now -- I've learned about SSH, and the little acrylic box is now sitting in a dark place with just power and ethernet cables in it

Thanks for your reply MacBreaker. The problem persisted, but I found a log file that said Xserver not found. I (re?)installed Xserver and now I get a login screen, but I can't log in with either my account or root --- no error message on screen -- just redisplay of login screen. Does anybody know what log file I should be looking for to find out what's not working?

Hello, I am just trying to set up a pcduino3 nano with Debian Jessie. I downloaded 4.9.7 and put it onto SD card, booted, logged into my sudo account, and then apt-get install lightdm followed by apt-get update apt-get upgrade as per "Getting Started" guide. I now have 4.9.12 LIghtdm fails to start with following message: systemctl status lightdm.service -l ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2017-03-07 21:41:18 CET; 17min ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Process: 1460 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lightdm (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 1457 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/sbin/lightdm" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1460 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: lightdm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state. Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: lightdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Stopping Light Display Manager... Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: lightdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. Mar 07 21:41:18 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Unit lightdm.service entered failed state. Mar 07 21:44:42 pcduino3nano systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. I tried dpkg-reconfigure lightdm but no change. Any suggestions?