pattena Posted March 7, 2017 Posted March 7, 2017 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?
MacBreaker Posted March 8, 2017 Posted March 8, 2017 If you got the problem after the 1st reboot.... Look here: try this systemctl stop log2ram.service install lightdm, run first time creating directory, systemctl start log2ram.service maybe it helps...
pattena Posted March 8, 2017 Author Posted March 8, 2017 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?
Ryan McGaughy Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Not sure if Xserver pulls everything you need. Try xorg.
pattena Posted March 21, 2017 Author Posted March 21, 2017 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
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