From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#35068: GDM crashes when it cannot find any .desktop files Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87r29wa0ky.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lg0um9qb.fsf@gnu.org> <20190420170649.30c05dbd@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHwVr-0003rX-39 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:23:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHwVq-0005y6-6m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:23:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33287) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHwVq-0005y2-43 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:23:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHwVp-0005ls-Rb for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:23:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20190420170649.30c05dbd@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2019 17:06:49 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 35068@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > I have the following suggestions for improvements: > > (1) Please back off after trying to login so one can actually debug thing= s. > If the login doesn't work on the first try it won't work on the next 245 = tries > in the next second either. > (2) Please have a failure fallback that at least returns you to gdm inste= ad of > looping forever. > (3) If there is an error message plase show it in a dialog box-- > there's xdialog and zenity that allows you to show a dialog box easily. > (4) Please honor .xsession and .xinitrc if it's there > (5) Please make gdm state the key to use in order to select a session typ= e. > I've still got no idea how to select a different session type in gdm. We should identity how that GDM assertion failure is reached and patch GDM to simply print an error or bail out. Anything would be better than the endless loop. (Note that the zero-.desktop-files situation cannot happen when installing from our installation image, so I would not consider it a 1.0 blocker; it=E2=80=99s definitely something we should fix, though.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.