Missing session options in LightDM | Bullseye OpenRC

[Lorenzo]

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 23:06:34 +0200
Fabian Schaar <fabian-schaar at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> [...] 
> Then the system booted fine with sysvinit,
> however, when I tried to manage services with sysvinit, the output was
> that systemd-logind (or something like that) was running. So I decided

It was systemd-logind or elogind?
Please check that elogind, libelogind0 and libpam-elogind packages are
fully installed (for instance, marked as 'ii' in the output of 'dpkg -l
| grep elogind').
Once elogind is installed and the system rebooted, there can't be a
systemd-logind process running because elogind conflicts with systemd.

> to install the openrc package which was the longterm plan after all.
> This seems to work fine now mostly, unfortunable, I can not
> reboot/poweroff the computer through LightDM now as I could when using
> systemd. Is there a way to fix it? 

Assuming you have all the elogind packages installed, it can be a race
between elogind and lightdm, where lightdm starts "too early"; try the
following

* log out from your graphic session
* log in into a VT getty and restart lightdm from there
* login again with lightdm and check if you can reboot/shutdown the
  system

Lorenzo

> Keep in mind that the openrc
> installation might miss something, currently I manually installed the
> following packages related to alternative init systems:
> 
> * sysvinit-core
> * libpam-elogind
> * openrc
> 
> + dependencies resolved automatically


> 
> I really don't know if this here is the right mailing list for that
> topic, but I hope so.
> 
>      Best regards,
>      Fabian Schaar