From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 35068@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35068: GDM crashes when it cannot find any .desktop files
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:05:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg0um9qb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Hello,
I used to have a config (when using SLiM) where my system profile did
not contain any window manager, so no .desktop files. Instead, the WM
would be installed in my profile and ~/.xsession would start it and a
couple of other things.
Unfortunately GDM crashes in that context. More precisely, after
choosing the user name on the log-in screen, it enters an infinite loop
with an assertion failure:
gdm_session_set_environment_variable: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
At that point you pretty much have to reboot since it becomes very hard
to type at the console. (You can try it in a VM.)
The workaround is to add at least one window manager to the system’s
‘packages’ field.
It would be nice to fix it now that GDM is our default log-in manager.
Ludo’.
next reply other threads:[~2019-04-01 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-01 8:05 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-20 15:06 ` bug#35068: GDM crashes when it cannot find any .desktop files Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-20 20:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-21 9:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-21 9:43 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-21 20:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 18:49 ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-25 19:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-26 1:02 ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-26 9:36 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-26 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-26 18:32 ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-27 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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