From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix Subject: bug#39281: gdm doesn't start Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:54:43 -0500 Message-ID: <16fe8920f9b.fa7d575955256.663632270245241639@zoho.com> References: <93d47bbc972a326dd8479b7ecee7ec83@disroot.org> Reply-To: sirgazil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iwATP-0006tt-B2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:55:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iwATO-0002D3-2W for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:55:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iwATN-0002Cu-TY for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:55:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iwATN-0003vY-Qi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:55:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Jack Hill Cc: Raghav Gururajan , Leo Prikler , 39281 <39281@debbugs.gnu.org> ---- On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:08:44 -0500 Jack Hill wrote ---- > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > >> so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the following patch, and, indeed, > >> that resolved the problem with gdm on my system. > > > > That's strange. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me > > gdm works fine with gnome-initial-setup being present. This is > > confusing. > > Indeed, my system does have a really slow disk, so it would not surprise > me if that contributed to it. Of course that shouldn't matter, but that's > the only thing I can think it. It would be nice to hear if sirgazil can > reproduce the fix since I think they were having the same problem on their > computer. Was the patch already applied? Because I just pulled, reconfigured and I have the same problem: After a message like this Jan 27 14:24:57 localhost dbus-daemon[446]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms) I only see a flashing caret that makes me think something is going to happen next, but after waiting for more than five minutes, nothing happens. If I go to TTY2, for example, I can log in and "sudo herd restart xorg-server"; then, after a few seconds, GDM is ready in TTY7, and I can log in to the desktop. For what is worth, my computer has a HDD. I also see this message in /var/log/debug: Jan 27 14:24:57 localhost gdm: Failed to contact accountsservice: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: Timeout was reached My current Guix: $ LANG=C guix describe Generation 11 Jan 27 2020 14:18:01 (current) guix fcb510c repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: fcb510c541e83291ea6682cba87020a913c64914