From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Subject: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:51:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20190916005154.41b74430@interia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o47-0001t4-83 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:17:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o46-0002cJ-8Q for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:17:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o46-0002cF-4b for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:17:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o45-0000lC-Ug for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:17:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o39-0001mM-Hi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:16:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o38-0002O6-F1 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:16:03 -0400 Received: from smtpo.poczta.interia.pl ([217.74.65.153]:48542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9o38-0002Nm-88 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 06:16:02 -0400 Received: from localhost (89-64-26-126.dynamic.chello.pl [89.64.26.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL) with ESMTPSA for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:51:54 +0200 (CEST) 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.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 37423@debbugs.gnu.org Hi. Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM makes GDM to loop like this: "New session c1 of user gdm." "Removed session c1." "New session c2 of user gdm." "Removed session c2." ... And it continues like this to relatively high numbers like c167. Didn't check how far it could go, but that's not important anyway. Reverting to the previous definition of the system by using "guix system switch-generation" or using grub menu entries doesn't help, changing /etc/config.scm back to the default gdm configuration and running "guix system reconfigure" doesn't help either. There's also one strange thing that have happened before rebooting - when logging off, SLiM was running in a loop too - I couldn't turn off the computer using it, I had to switch to another tty and run "shutdown" manualy. But reverting to a configuration with SLiM works - I can use the system with it, but can't with GDM anymore. --- Jan Wielkiewicz