User switching not working. GDBus error

[saivinoba]

Hi,

I'm on Linux Mint 16 XFCE. I'm not able to switch to other user from either 'Actions Button' or 'User Switcher'. I get the following error

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[b]Unable to start new display:[/b]
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files

Although I have posted under XFCE the same problem exists in Cinnamon also, just someother short error message.

For what it is worth, let me add that this is not clean install of XFCE from Mint 16 XFCE iso. I have cinnamon, but as my netbook does not support 3D accelaration, had to install XFCE afterwards.

It is very inconvenient to logout and login as different user each time. For that time being I'm logging myself in console and starting x with

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startx -- :1

and switching using Ctrl+Alt+Fn key.

[computerbob]

Boot from a live cd of just about any linux distro
Run memtest 100%

Esc and boot to live cd desktop
Open Menu
Find Disks (aka Gnome-disk-utility)
All drives should say "Disk is OK"
Any bad sectors means the drive is no good.

If ram is good and hdd is good, save files and reload OS
Do a fresh install this time. Create a new partition table.

[saivinoba]

I don't understand how that is related to my problem. Everything is working fine except that I'm not able to use user-switch function.

[saivinoba]

Reviving an old post.

The problem apparently was with gdmflexiserver being hardcoded to 'actions' which is not available in latest version of Ubuntu (Linux Mint).
1. Refer http://askubuntu.com/questions/517337/s ... untu-14-04 for solution.
2. Refer https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1320560 for bug report.

I don't have access to the mentioned system so cannot confirm the fix. Gave ref here so that people don't have to do a lot of search. Also, this post will get closure.

[MtnDewManiac]

I hope you're not still using Mint 16, since it has been unsupported (receiving NO updates, even security-related ones) for over a year.

Regards,
MDM

[saivinoba]

I hope you're not still using Mint 16, since it has been unsupported (receiving NO updates, even security-related ones) for over a year.

Regards,
MDM

Hi, I'm running Rafaela. I saw bug report for 14.04 Trusty, so just posted the link without thinking much. What you implied is correct; the issue has been fixed and as long as we are running latest version of LM (or Ubuntu) there should not be an issue (again _I_ cannot confirm as I don't have XFCE version). Thanks.