From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40652@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:57:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8rryfih.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dyfkegp.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> 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’.
I think it was around 2 weeks ago.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-16 0:20 bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16 1:14 ` bug#40652: SLIM is working though with gnome, mate, xfce and enlightenment R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16 2:58 ` bug#40652: Local build of gdm without gdm-xsession.patch still fails to start R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16 4:19 ` bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-16 4:53 ` Rene via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-16 5:31 ` bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16 7:32 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-16 8:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-16 8:57 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2020-04-16 9:24 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-16 21:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-17 9:06 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-18 16:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-10 0:40 ` bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-16 14:05 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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