From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Sample Subject: bug#35484: GDM failing to start stumpwm after merge Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87d0l4re46.fsf@ngyro.com> References: <87zho9cu2a.fsf@posteo.net> <87pnp5q7d2.fsf@ngyro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hL8n9-0006OT-F0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:06:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hL8n4-0008IC-Gf for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:06:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hL8n4-0008I2-BT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:06:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hL8n4-0006ut-2H for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:06:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zho9cu2a.fsf@posteo.net> Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: 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: Brett Gilio Cc: 35484@debbugs.gnu.org Hi again, Timothy Sample writes: > Hi Brett, > > Brett Gilio writes: > >> Hey all >> >> I just reconfigured my system configuration after the big staging merge >> to master. I use StumpWM. >> >> GDM seems to be starting just fine, but after this reconfiguration >> stumpwm or X or something is crashing for me and looping me back to GDM. >> >> Where are the logs I can view for this? I see some message appear but >> quickly disappear before looping back into GDM. > > GDM logs things to =E2=80=9C/var/log/messages=E2=80=9D. However, it may = not be useful > in this case (do take a look, though). > >> If I can get the logs I can share them or try and figure it out myself. > > You could also share some other details about your config. For > instance, how is StumpWM started? Do you have a =E2=80=9C~/.xsession=E2= =80=9D script or > does StumpWM provide a =E2=80=9C.desktop=E2=80=9D file that GDM needs to = find? After doing some testing in a VM, it looks like this is an issue with my recent commit: 8caa458953eeac783c73a0e5aaa72842fe3914c9. I added a placeholder desktop entry file, and even though I did my best to make it invisible, GDM is still selecting it. (I tested GNOME and XFCE, but I guess they were preferred by GDM over the placeholder, whereas StumpWM is not. Maybe the has to do with how the names are sorted.) I will try and fix this today, but in the mean time, you can either: =E2=80=A2 go back to using SLiM for now; =E2=80=A2 launch StumpWM from =E2=80=9C~/.xsession=E2=80=9D; or =E2=80=A2 install another WM, so that you can select StumpWM explicitly= when logging in (using the little gear icon that shows up when you have multiple sessions available). Sorry! -- Tim