On 2/7/23 3:11 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Lightdm has been working fine up until pacman update today. After the update, lightdm fails with a garbled screen. The journal shows:
Feb 07 00:58:57 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Feb 07 00:59:00 valkyrie systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager. Feb 07 00:59:00 valkyrie lightdm[782]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Consumed 1.177s CPU time. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Consumed 1.177s CPU time.
I run a similar setup. But logs look different on my end Feb 06 10:16:02 titan systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... ... Feb 06 10:16:02 titan systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager. Feb 06 10:16:02 titan systemd[1]: Reached target User and Group Name Lookups. Feb 06 10:16:02 titan systemd[1]: Starting Accounts Service... ... Feb 06 10:16:02 titan systemd[1]: Started Accounts Service. ... Feb 06 10:16:03 titan lightdm[733]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm(uid=975) by (uid=0) The issue seems to be that "Accounts Service". When I look at what's running on my machine with the keyword "account" I see this: # ps aux | grep -i account root 666 0.0 0.0 237396 236 ? Ssl Feb06 0:00 /usr/lib/accounts-daemon # pacman -Qo /usr/lib/accounts-daemon /usr/lib/accounts-daemon is owned by accountsservice 22.08.8-2 Perhaps that "accountsservice" package somehow got uninstalled on your machine? A quick search turned up this page, which would seem to also suggest that: https://dev.to/nabbisen/fix-lightdm-error-the-name-org-freedesktop-accounts-... HTH, DR