| sysop | hello, I temporarily disabled lightdm.service via systemctl to access a pure command line interface to change some configs, now i can't re-enable the service, only manualy start it. | 16:05 |
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| sysop | requesting help on re-enabling it. | 16:06 |
| rfm | sysop, just enabling it doesn't start it, it just makes it start at the next boot. | 16:35 |
| === sysop is now known as Annon | ||
| Annon | hello? | 16:59 |
| rfm | Annon, hi. Do you have a xubuntu question? | 17:00 |
| Annon | sorry yes im the 'sysop' from earlyer | 17:01 |
| rfm | Annon, looking into this more, it doesn't appear that lightdm.service is meant to be enabled. on my 22.04 system, graphical.target requires display-manager.service which is a symlink to lightdm.service | 17:04 |
| rfm | Annon, on my 22.10 system where I tried disabling/enabling lightdm.service to try to see what problem you were having, that symlink doesn't exist. | 17:05 |
| Annon | ok | 17:06 |
| Annon | so mine is 22.04. do i need to re-add links manualy? | 17:07 |
| rfm | Annon, I don't know if disabling it deleted the symlink somehow. Is it in fact true that in your current state, rebooting comes up in console mode? | 17:07 |
| Annon | yes it comes up as console | 17:08 |
| rfm | Annon, kind of weird that disabling it would delete that symlink, but you could try linking /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to /lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service and see if it helps | 17:10 |
| Annon | in order to get the GUI i've bin running "sudo systemctl start lightdm.service" | 17:10 |
| Annon | but it always starts back at console | 17:11 |
| Annon | oh sorry didnt see your response | 17:11 |
| rfm | Annon, right, what's going on is the system default target is graphical.target, which requires display-manager.service | 17:11 |
| rfm | Annon, and if the symlink is there starting display-manager.service would start lightdm.service. | 17:12 |
| rfm | Annon, but with the symlink gone nothing is pointing to lightdm.service so it doesn't get started | 17:13 |
| Annon | ok im rebooting now ill be back to say if it worked or not | 17:15 |
| Annon | ok that worked thanks for the help | 17:17 |
| rfm | Annon, great. BTW, a better way to do this in the future is "systemctl isolate multi-user.target' (do this in a virtual console). That will take down lightdm and all of the logged in graphical sessions, but not make any permanent change to the system config. | 17:20 |
| Annon | ok thankyou | 17:20 |
| rfm | Annon, then when done with the stuff you want to do in console mode, you can "systemctl start graphical.target" or just reboot | 17:20 |
| Annon | thanks | 17:22 |
| Annon | bye | 17:22 |
| jarnos | I tried installing Xubuntu Minimal from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-minimal/current/ but it is hard, because setting Finnish keyboard does not work in the installer. | 18:00 |
| jarnos | The PC would work as a server running MythTV backend and other stuff. I think I better install Xubuntu Minimal than pure server installation, because if I need to run MythtV setup over network, it is a GUI software and will need some graphics libraries in the host, too, right? | 18:02 |
| tertitten | Any Xubuntu packagers around? | 21:03 |
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