2014-11-22 2:53 GMT+01:00 Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at>: > Hi Andrei, > >> - purge lxdm (remove might do it as well, but just for good measure) >> - reconfigure lightdm (to make sure display-manager.service symlink >> points to lightdm.service) > > Yes, indeed, there is a bug in the service file shipped by lxdm > which breaks all other dms. Removing and hand adjusting the > display-manager.service helped. > > Still, my question is open: > >> > Is there *any* way to *force* systemd to start lightdm ...? > > I mean, it seems there is no way to override what systemd believes > is correct. You can always drop an override unit into /etc to fix the (wrong) assumptions made in an unit file. It's not different compared to editing a sysvinit script to do what you want ;-) For the "File exists" message, it would indeed be nicer to get a bit more details there, without having to look into the service file.
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