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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: 37423-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:10:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv96oeri.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgort7z0.fsf@ngyro.com> (Timothy Sample's message of "Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:25:55 -0400")

Hello,

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Gábor,
>>
>> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Couldn't we simply do what the fix does: ensuring the owner of
>>> the files under “/var/lib/gdm” is the current “gdm” user?
>>
>> Hey you’re right, I was not approaching it from the right angle.
>>
>> Here’s a patch that does that.  Thoughts?
>
> LGTM!  Though I don’t have a chance to test it at the moment, so all I
> can really say is that it makes sense and I didn’t see any typos.  :)

I tested in a VM and it’s all good.  Pushed as
f817901ee74fbc2f3c3322d473ad4c72b052499c.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-20 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-15 22:51 bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop Jan
2019-09-17  4:45 ` Timothy Sample
2019-09-17 11:16   ` Jan
2019-09-19 21:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-19 21:47     ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-20  9:40       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-20 11:03         ` Julien Lepiller
2019-09-20 13:25         ` Timothy Sample
2019-09-20 21:10           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-09-19 22:00     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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