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LightDM logs to /var/log rather than journal #26172
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2.status: stalehttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.mdhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.md2.status: wait-for-upstreamWaiting for upstream fix (or their other action).Waiting for upstream fix (or their other action).
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2.status: stalehttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.mdhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.md2.status: wait-for-upstreamWaiting for upstream fix (or their other action).Waiting for upstream fix (or their other action).
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When using lightdm, the X server log goes to
/var/log/X.0.logand/var/log/x-0.log(the former is with timestamps, the latter without) and the display manager log goes to/var/log/lightdm.log. All of this should instead go to the journal. This seems to be hard-coded behaviour in lightdm (X server, lightdm). This makes debugging errors more difficult and inconsistent with other display managers.Steps to reproduce
Enable and start lightdm.
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