Bug 1400398

Summary: lightdm crashes after updates changes lightdm.conf specs
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Todd <ToddAndMargo>
Component: lightdmAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: christoph.wickert, rdieter
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Last Closed: 2016-12-18 15:28:53 UTC Type: Bug
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lightdm.conf from FC24 that crashes FC25's lighdm
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new lightdm.conf that worked after renaming it none

Description Todd 2016-12-01 05:27:31 UTC
Created attachment 1226626 [details]
lightdm.conf from FC24 that crashes FC25's lighdm

Hi All,

FC25 x64
lightdm-1.18.2-1.fc25.x86_64

On upgrading from FC24 to FC25 with dnf, lightdm would not start on both of my machines using lightdm.  THIS CAUSED PANIC THROUGH THE RANKS!

As it transpires, when lightdm got updated for FC25, the new version changed the way /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf was used and left the old .conf file in place for the new lightdm to crash on.  The fix is to use lightdm.conf.rpmnew as your lightdm.conf. 

I will attach a new and old lightdm.conf

-T

Comment 1 Todd 2016-12-01 05:28:27 UTC
Created attachment 1226627 [details]
new lightdm.conf that worked after renaming it

Comment 2 Todd 2016-12-01 05:29:37 UTC
While troubleshooting this, don't forget <ctrl><alt><f2> to get a terminal window.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2016-12-18 15:28:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1405677 ***