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I have a funtoo installation and I recently did sudo emerge x11-misc/lightdm which appeared to work fine, but attempting to start lightdm in test mode with sudo lightdm --test-mode gives this:

** (lightdm:12656): WARNING **: Failed to get list of logind seats: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

This is strange because I (think) am using openrc, not systemd (which I believe provides logind).

I don't think systemd is installed because equery f systemd says No installed packaged matching systems and I wish to keep it this way. Is it possible to configure LightDM to not use systemd?

Ell
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  • I think am having the same problem as you. On my system, lightdm installs fine but `sudo lightdm --test-mode` gives me the same warning as you got. But beware: it really is a warning, not an error. So it is possible you can find more clues in `/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log`. Could you edit your post to include the contents of this file? Also, can you tell us which of these USE flags you have enabled `systemd` `introspection` `gnome`? And which profile do you have enabled? – Lorraine Oct 12 '16 at 18:29
  • `Is it possible to configure LightDM to not use systemd?` Unlike a certain other DM, LightDM does not need systemd to function. – Lorraine Oct 12 '16 at 18:40

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In my case, because I did not have pantheon installed, the problem with lightdm not starting up was to remove the enlightenment overlay and then to install the ebuild supplied by Gentoo themselves.

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