After many boot hangups and stability issues with KDM I decided to follow this tutorial and move over to LightDM. Clearly the login screen does not look as pretty as with KDM, but the boot process is Stable and Fast, both with capitals
However, I have one issue, happening on shutdown of the laptop. It looks like there is a problem with loading the Plymouth screen and console-type messages flood the screen:
It says 'startpar: service(s) returned failure: plymouth'. I saw there was a topic about this error last year:
http://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1933. But this was during startup, the log-messages are not the same and the solution does not work in this case.
This the corresponding /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log:
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[+223.65s] DEBUG: Session pid=3543: Exited with return value 0
[+223.65s] DEBUG: Seat: Session stopped
[+223.65s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping display server, no sessions require it
[+223.65s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 3012
[+224.51s] DEBUG: Process 3012 exited with return value 0
[+224.51s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: X server stopped
[+224.51s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+224.51s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+224.51s] DEBUG: Seat: Display server stopped
[+224.51s] DEBUG: Seat: Active display server stopped, starting greeter
[+224.51s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating greeter session
[+224.52s] DEBUG: Seat: Creating display server of type x
[+224.52s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+224.52s] DEBUG: Seat: Starting local X display on VT 7
[+224.52s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+224.52s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+224.52s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Launching X Server
[+224.52s] DEBUG: Launching process 4879: /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+224.52s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Got signal 15 from process 4947
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Caught Terminated signal, shutting down
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Stopping display manager
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping display server
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Sending signal 15 to process 4879
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopping session
[+224.56s] DEBUG: Seat: Session stopped
[+226.01s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 4879
[+226.01s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Got signal from X server :0
[+226.01s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Connecting to XServer :0
[+226.72s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Error connecting to XServer :0
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Process 4879 exited with return value 0
[+227.33s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: X server stopped
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Releasing VT 7
[+227.33s] DEBUG: DisplayServer x-0: Removing X server authority /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Seat: Display server stopped
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Seat: Stopped
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Display manager stopped
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Stopping daemon
[+227.33s] DEBUG: Exiting with return value 0
Shutting down completes successfully despite this error; apt-get dist-upgrade shows my system is completely up-to-date with no open ends.
Anyone else having this as well / know how to solve it?
Regards, Bas.
(If you prefer this update on the Bug control section, that is OK.)
UPDATE:
I do not always get the 'Plymouth Failed' error. But I do always get a visible console during shutdown. Or is this 'works as designed'?