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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:43:50 +0200
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To: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
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Hi Guillaume,

Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> skribis:

> I don't know if it's related, but recently I had GDM crashes at boot
> after reconfiguring a system using gdm-service-type (generation n) to
> make it use slim-service-type instead (generation n+1), and then
> reconfiguring to gdm-service-type again (generation n+2).
>
> The problem was that the 'gdm' user id number (or group id number) was
> not the same in generations n and n+2, which prevented GDM from
> accessing the '/var/lib/gdm' directory.

When did that happen?

Commit a43e9157ef479e94c19951cc9d228cf153bf78ee (Sep. 2019) supposedly
ensures that /var/lib/gdm has proper ownership.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.