[16:05] <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.
[16:06] <sysop> requesting help on re-enabling it.
[16:35] <rfm> sysop, just enabling it doesn't start it, it just makes it start at the next boot.  
[16:59] <Annon> hello?
[17:00] <rfm> Annon, hi.  Do you have a xubuntu question?
[17:01] <Annon> sorry yes im the 'sysop' from earlyer
[17:04] <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
[17:05] <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.
[17:06] <Annon> ok
[17:07] <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?
[17:08] <Annon> yes it comes up as console
[17:10] <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"
[17:11] <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
[17:12] <rfm> Annon, and if the symlink is there starting display-manager.service would start lightdm.service.  
[17:13] <rfm> Annon, but with the symlink gone nothing is pointing to lightdm.service so it doesn't get started
[17:15] <Annon> ok im rebooting now ill be back to say if it worked or not
[17:17] <Annon> ok that worked thanks for the help
[17:20] <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
[17:22] <Annon> thanks
[17:22] <Annon> bye
[18:00] <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.
[18:02] <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?
[21:03] <tertitten> Any Xubuntu packagers around?