From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
Cc: 35408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:13:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1fhag3v.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17cc954b1feb50becef0df5bcafa56b6c9e45da7.camel@sturm.com.au> (Ben Sturmfels's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:41:27 +1000")
Hi Ben,
Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> writes:
> Hi Ludovic,
>
> On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 11:08 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>
>> Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:
>>
>> > I was previously using a 24" Samsung external monitor with my X200
>> > Guix
>> > System via VGA. Since the switch to GDM, I no longer seem to be
>> > able
>> > connect this monitor. When I do, the laptop screen just keeps
>> > flashing.
>>
>> So the GDM login screen never shows up, right?
>
> I'm thoroughly confused now. GDM definitely *was* working with the
> laptop screen only, but now when I reconfigure it or choose an old Grub
> entry, I can't get to the login screen with either external monitor or
> the laptop. In both cases the console loops showing a message something
> like:
>
> New session c1 of user gdm.
> Removed session c1.
> .
> .
> .
> New session c506 of user gdm.
> Removed session c506.
This sounds familiar. Can you check if /var/lib/gdm is owned by gdm.
If it isn't, chowning it back to gdm:gdm should fix it.
Regards
Diego
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-25 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-24 4:25 bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 9:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 11:41 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 12:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-25 12:53 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-26 1:12 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 22:13 ` Diego Nicola Barbato [this message]
2019-04-26 0:42 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 2:00 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 8:01 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 15:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-08 2:50 ` Ben Sturmfels
2020-06-11 4:01 ` Royce Strange
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