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Start_gui is not being called while booting #264

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On a Kiosk OS that I'm making I just realize that start_gui is not being called. First I thought it was matchbox-window-manager crashing on Trixie, but after all it happened the same in bookworm, then I added a simple sudo touch /etc/hi at the beginning of the start_gui and after reboot no /etc/hi file was found, so, for me, somehow start_gui is not being called (a year ago I used CustomPiOS for the same Kiosk OS and it worked fine, now I just changed some lines of code and it stopped working).

The dmseg doesn't show any error message, but lightdm.service shows the following message:

lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-11-13 11:32:37 -03; 19min ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Main PID: 528 (lightdm) Tasks: 6 (limit: 370) CPU: 3.807s CGroup: /system.slice/lightdm.service ├─528 /usr/sbin/lightdm ├─679 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch └─734 lightdm --session-child 14 22 Nov 13 11:32:37 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting lightdm.service - Light Display Manager... Nov 13 11:32:37 raspberrypi lightdm[528]: 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 Nov 13 11:32:37 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started lightdm.service - Light Display Manager. Nov 13 11:32:42 raspberrypi lightdm[629]: 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 Nov 13 11:32:42 raspberrypi lightdm[629]: pam_unix(lightdm-autologin:session): session opened for user pi(uid=1000) by (uid=0) Nov 13 11:32:45 raspberrypi lightdm[684]: 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 Nov 13 11:32:45 raspberrypi lightdm[684]: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session opened for user lightdm(uid=105) by (uid=0) 

(Those errors are in yellow so it's seems the service trait them as warning rather than errors)

I've attached both the start_chroot_script (I had to upload it as .txt because of GitHub limitations) and the build.log

build.log

start_chroot_script

Edit: By the way, I'm using Bookworm as CustomPiOS has no support for Trixie yet (On Trixie I had a black screen and on Bookworm I have a terminal login prompt. On both no GUI whatsoever)

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