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[Joe Zeff]

On 01/19/2014 01:38 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
> On 19/01/14 16:31, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> ps aux | grep lightdm
>
>
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ ps aux | grep lightdm
> bobg      4582  0.0  0.0 112664   900 pts/0    S+   16:35   0:00 grep
> --color=auto lightdm
>
> I guess it is running but did not show up with loginctl? I'm getting in
> over my head ...

No, it's not running.  That line shows that when the command was run, 
grep was running with lightdm as its search string.  Try running this, 
as yourself:

systemctl status lightdm.service

and see if the service is active.