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From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>,
	39281@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
Cc: sirgazil@zoho.com
Subject: bug#39281: gdm doesn't start
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:26:03 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2001262111550.11123@marsh.hcoop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d65f5a5c54b87c11f535d6b3080e794c21dbedd6.camel@student.tugraz.at>

According to my git bisect, d36fa50fbf8169018193774782fd21f1b13b9c0e [0] 
is the culprit. It makes some sense that the commit is gnome-related, but 
I have no idea why adding more packages to the environment should cause 
gdm to fail to run properly. Therefore, I am inclined to believe that it is 
a weird timing issue as Leo suspects.

[0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=d36fa50fbf8169018193774782fd21f1b13b9c0e

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, Leo Prikler wrote:

> I saw the same warnings on one of my systems as well, but it boots
> fine.  On another one, the same behaviour occurs, but GDM can be
> started manually by restarting xorg-server from a TTY.  Note, that I
> can not do so from an SSH remote, because SSH fails to start in a
> similar manner.

My system does indeed have a really slow disk, so perhaps this makes the 
problem more likely to happen. Obviously, it would be nice if gdm started 
correctly, but in a bigger picture, it would be nice if shepherd had a 
better way of dealing with misbehaving services. For example, if shepherd 
know how to check the health of a service and restarted it wasn't 
responding correctly.

I don't know where to go from here. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable 
about gnome and gdm can help us out.

Best,
Jack

       reply	other threads:[~2020-01-27  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d65f5a5c54b87c11f535d6b3080e794c21dbedd6.camel@student.tugraz.at>
2020-01-27  2:26 ` Jack Hill [this message]
2020-01-27  3:30 ` bug#39281: gdm doesn't start Raghav Gururajan
2020-01-27  4:50   ` Jack Hill
2020-01-27  4:52     ` bug#39281: [PATCH] gnu: gnome: don't propagate gnome-initial-setup Jack Hill
2020-01-27  5:24     ` bug#39281: gdm doesn't start Leo Prikler
2020-01-28  9:37       ` Leo Prikler
2020-01-28 18:03         ` Jack Hill
2020-01-28 18:18           ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-28 18:21             ` Jack Hill
2020-01-28 18:26               ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-28 20:11         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-01-27  8:51   ` Raghav Gururajan
2020-01-27 19:08     ` Jack Hill
2020-01-27 19:54       ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-27 20:13         ` Jack Hill
2020-01-27 20:24         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-01-27 21:06           ` Jack Hill
2020-01-27 20:29         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-01-27 22:07           ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-28  5:21     ` Raghav Gururajan
2020-01-25 20:32 Jack Hill
2020-01-25 22:32 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-26  3:33   ` Jack Hill

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