Login loop with lightdm, startx works, .xsession-errors.old contains systemctl: unrecognized option '--value'

Ernest Dujo

10/17/22, 10:52 PM

I got a login loop in Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, startx works, installed ubuntu-desktop and made it the default and the login loop persisted, reinstalled lightdm stayed the same,

after booting with startx, .xsession-errors.old shows the following at the end which I think might be the cause of the loop

systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--value' systemctl: unrecognized option '--wait'

But I don't have any script in .profile, and have no idea where systemctl is being used with --value parameter at startup.

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guiverc

10/17/22, 10:59 PM

Please clarify your release, 18 implies a *snap* only product such as Ubuntu Core 18, but you've tagged a *deb* based 18.04 system; they are different products. (Ubuntu has had *year* based *snap* only products since 2016).

Ernest Dujo

10/17/22, 11:36 PM

@guiverc updated with what I found in lsb_release -a

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Login loop with lightdm, startx works, .xsession-errors.old contains systemctl: unrecognized option '--value'

TH: การเข้าสู่ระบบวนซ้ำด้วย lightdm, startx ทำงาน, .xsession-errors.old มี systemctl: ตัวเลือกที่ไม่รู้จัก '--value'

RO: Bucla de conectare cu lightdm, startx funcționează, .xsession-errors.old conține systemctl: opțiunea nerecunoscută „--value”

RU: Цикл входа в систему с lightdm, startx работает, .xsession-errors.old содержит systemctl: нераспознанный параметр '--value'

VI: Vòng lặp đăng nhập với lightdm, startx hoạt động, .xsession-errors.old chứa tùy chọn systemctl: unrecognized '--value'

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