Using 217-2 says nodm is masked. Had to revert to 215-7 to get it to work. Give it a try and tell me what happens.
# nodm configuration
# Set NODM_ENABLED to something different than 'false' to enable nodm NODM_ENABLED=true # User to autologin for NODM_USER=jidanni # First vt to try when looking for free VTs NODM_FIRST_VT=7 # X session NODM_XSESSION=/etc/X11/Xsession # Options for the X server NODM_X_OPTIONS='-nolisten tcp' # If an X session will run for less than this time in seconds, nodm will wait an # increasing bit of time before restarting the session. NODM_MIN_SESSION_TIME=60
# cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager cat: /etc/X11/default-display-manager: No such file or directory # systemctl status nodm ● nodm.service - LSB: No Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nodm) Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/nodm.service.d └─50-nodm-$x-display-manager.conf Active: active (running) since 二 2014-12-02 13:22:22 CST; 2min 26s ago Process: 17940 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nodm start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: /system.slice/nodm.service ├─17947 /usr/sbin/nodm └─17948 /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp vt7 12月 02 13:22:22 jidanni2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: No Display Manager. 12月 02 13:22:22 jidanni2 nodm[17947]: starting nodm 12月 02 13:22:24 jidanni2 nodm[17951]: Successful su on ??? for jidanni by root But that is when it is working. When it is not there is also some other output but that is not as easy to copy because I wasn't running typescript outside of X...