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.