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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36924: Xfce not starting
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:00:07 +0100
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> after trying to reconfigure with commit 02b6382169192367e97a2d1bc72f8eb3e=
d38b0dc
> of December 9, I am now running into a problem where I cannot log into my=
 xfce
> session under gdm any more: According to the first tty, a session is open=
ed
> and closed immediately again, and the gdm login screen reappears.

Did you try your config with the same commit in =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=
=80=99?  Does
it reproduce the problem?

If it does not, that means the problem has to do with state, things like
/var/lib/gdm as you mentioned.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.