> Can you try to restart lightdm using: service lightdm restart and report back?
Same faulty behaviour, since `service lightdm restart` only acts as a wrapper for `/etc/init.d/lightdm restart`, see attached console.log. Daniel
# service lightdm stop; sleep 10; bash -x service lightdm start
Stopping Light Display Manager: lightdm.
119:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:44:main [2,1, 0] basename service
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:44:main [2,0, 0] VERSION='service ver. 0.91-ubuntu1'
119:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:46:main [2,1, 0] basename service
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:46:main [2,0, 0] USAGE='Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:47:main [2,0, 0] SERVICE=
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:48:main [2,0, 0] ACTION=
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:49:main [2,0, 0] SERVICEDIR=/etc/init.d
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:50:main [2,0, 0] OPTIONS=
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:51:main [2,0, 0] is_systemd=
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:54:main [2,0, 0] '[' 2 -eq 0 ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:59:main [2,0, 0] '[' -d /run/systemd/system ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:63:main [2,0, 0] cd /
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:64:main [2,0, 0] '[' 2 -gt 0 ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:65:main [2,0, 0] case "${1}" in
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:75:main [2,0, 0] '[' -z '' -a 2 -eq 1 -a lightdm = --status-all ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:107:main [2,0, 1] '[' 2 -eq 2 -a start = --full-restart ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:120:main [2,0, 1] '[' -z '' ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:121:main [2,0, 0] SERVICE=lightdm
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:127:main [2,0, 0] shift
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:64:main [2,0, 0] '[' 1 -gt 0 ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:65:main [2,0, 0] case "${1}" in
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:75:main [2,0, 0] '[' -z lightdm -a 1 -eq 1 -a start = --status-all ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:107:main [2,0, 1] '[' 1 -eq 2 -a '' = --full-restart ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:120:main [2,0, 1] '[' -z lightdm ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:122:main [2,0, 1] '[' -z '' ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:123:main [2,0, 0] ACTION=start
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:127:main [2,0, 0] shift
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:64:main [2,0, 0] '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:133:main [2,0, 0] unset UPSTART_SESSION
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:134:main [2,0, 0] '[' -r /etc/init/lightdm.conf ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:184:main [2,0, 0] '[' -n '' ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:233:main [2,0, 0] update_openrc_started_symlinks
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:168:update_openrc_started_symlinks [2,0, 0] '[' -d /run/openrc/started ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:234:main [2,0, 0] run_via_sysvinit
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:157:run_via_sysvinit [2,0, 0] '[' -x /etc/init.d/lightdm ']'
19:03:51:/usr/sbin/service:158:run_via_sysvinit [2,0, 0] exec env -i LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE= LC_NUMERIC= LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE= LC_MONETARY= LC_MESSAGES= LC_PAPER= LC_NAME= LC_ADDRESS= LC_TELEPHONE= LC_MEASUREMENT= LC_IDENTIFICATION= LC_ALL= PATH=/root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin TERM=screen /etc/init.d/lightdm start
Starting Light Display Manager: lightdm.
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