From: "Raghav Gururajan" <raghavgururajan@disroot.org>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>,
39281@debbugs.gnu.org, sirgazil@zoho.com
Subject: bug#39281: gdm doesn't start
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:51:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef5bdc7328c053c19b267dd464483169@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2001262334250.11123@marsh.hcoop.net>
> I believe that I've found the problem!
Nice!
> Using the technique that Ludo’ described in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34580#17>, I was
> able to grab an strace of gdm (attached) while it was failing to start properly. I was suspicious
> of the following line:
>
> """
> 418 22:46:10 sendto(8, "<13>Jan 26 22:46:10 gdm: GdmManager: couldn't look up username
> gnome-initial-setup\n", 83, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 83 <5.487224>
> """
>
> so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the following patch, and, indeed,
> that resolved the problem with gdm on my system.
That's strange. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me gdm works fine with gnome-initial-setup being present. This is confusing.
> While I'm still not exactly sure why this was causing gdm problems, and why `herd restart
> xorg-server` caused gdm to start working correctly, I think that removing gnome-initial-setup from
> the gnome meta-package is the right thing to do. Instead, perhaps it could be provided via its own
> service, auto-selected by the installer. If I recall correctly from other distros (e.g. Fedora),
> the gnome-initial-setup wizard is run from its own user on first boot, and after it finishes, the
> user is logged in as themselves. That said, gnome-initial-setup did seem to run fine for me the
> first time I logged into gnome after it was installed, and hasn't stared again.
>
> Thoughts?
I would say debugging and fixing would be better than removing. Let me see what I can do.
> P.S. Thanks Raghav for your work on making gnome in guix a better experience!
10-4 on the sarcasm. ;-)
Regards,
RG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-27 8:52 UTC|newest]
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2020-01-27 2:26 ` bug#39281: gdm doesn't start Jack Hill
2020-01-27 3:30 ` 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 [this message]
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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