dm-tool add-nested-seat fails

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This appears to be due to LightDM trying to connect to these X servers as 127.0.0.1:<displaynumber>. I think this means it's trying to use TCP/IP and failing. Since X.Org changed to TCP/IP disabled by default this stopped working. Solution is to just connect to :<displaynumber>.

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.17.4-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.17.4-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Add support for g_autoptr and liblightdm-gobject
    - Fix dm-tool add-local-seat not working because LightDM is trying to
      connect with TCP/IP (LP: #1529454)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:13:18 +1300

Hello Petter, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lightdm into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/1.16.7-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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lightdm version 1.16.7-0ubuntu1 from wily-proposed works fine here, 'dm-tool add-nested-seat' now opens a nested X server with lightdm as expected. Thanks a lot.

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.16.7-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.16.7-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix dm-tool add-local-seat not working because LightDM is trying to
      connect with TCP/IP (LP: #1529454)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:35:34 +1300

The verification of the Stable Release Update for lightdm has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.