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LightDM kicks me out when I run rsync

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LightDM kicks me out when I run rsync

#1 Post by noober1983 »

Hello all.

I just installed Testing+XFCE on a Dell Inspiron 5667. I installed version 4.13 of xfwm following the instructions here to solve video tearing.

While on my user XFCE session, whenever I start rsync to recover my data from a backup USB hard drive the screen goes black and I get the lightdm greeter; it's exactly the issue discussed here, save the fact that I am not on a VM. The last time I got this error/bug rsync had been running for about 1 minute; sometimes it gets longer, more than 10 minutes, before I get kicked out of the XFCE session.

Here's what lightdm.log says:

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[+4300.08s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session lightdm-xsession
[+4300.08s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Stopping greeter; display server will be re-used for user session
[+4300.08s] DEBUG: Session pid=4538: Sending SIGTERM
[+4300.16s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+4300.16s] DEBUG: Session pid=4538: Exited with return value 0
[+4300.16s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Session stopped
[+4300.16s] DEBUG: Seat seat0: Greeter stopped, running session
[+4300.16s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session3
[+4300.17s] DEBUG: Session pid=4585: Running command /etc/X11/Xsession default
[+4300.17s] DEBUG: Creating shared data directory /var/lib/lightdm/data/guajardo
[+4300.17s] DEBUG: Session pid=4585: Logging to .xsession-errors
I looked at .xsession-errors but nothing relevant appeared. This is seat0-greeter.log:

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** Message: 17:55:45.879: Starting lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.4 (Feb 21 2018, 10:34:28)
** Message: 17:55:45.931: [Configuration] Reading file: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/01_debian.conf
** Message: 17:55:45.942: [Configuration] Reading file: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): WARNING **: 17:55:47.157: [PIDs] Failed to execute command: upstart

(lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:55:49.692: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): WARNING **: 17:55:53.680: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files

(lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:55:56.192: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)

(lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:55:56.785: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)

(lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:55:57.621: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar)

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:4552): WARNING **: 17:55:57.790: [PIDs] Failed to terminate process #4575: No such process
I don't know what the last process is supposed to be. I'd had trouble on this box before using Linux Mint regarding the display; they were solved installing the relevant firmware to the i915 Intel card, now available here.

I have been trying to rsync my USB HDD with my local HDD all day now; I finally got to the point where I copied and pasted in Thunar (there were just a few directories left), and that went on almost smoothly (the system went slow sometimes, but the files were copied and the session wasn't terminated).

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I also just installed Testing+XFCE with Openbox instead of xfwm4 on another laptop (Dell Inspiron 1090, a very small box) and there rsync works fine and runs for hours (quite literally) uninterrupted.

EDIT 2: Also happened when running Rhythmbox and it was reading the music database.

I need to know how to diagnose and solve this, I use rsync to backup everything in my laptop to the USB HDD.

Thanks in advance! Cheers!
Quid non intellegas aut tace aut disce.

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