From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raghav Gururajan" Subject: bug#39281: gdm doesn't start Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:51:25 +0000 Message-ID: References: <93d47bbc972a326dd8479b7ecee7ec83@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw07o-0002mD-73 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:52:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw07m-00017G-SR for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:52:04 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw07m-00016v-7i for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:52:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iw07m-0006sZ-64 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:52:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Jack Hill Cc: Leo Prikler , 39281@debbugs.gnu.org, sirgazil@zoho.com > I believe that I've found the problem!=0A=0ANice!=0A=0A> Using the tech= nique that Ludo=E2=80=99 described in , I was=0A> able to grab an strace of gdm (attached) while it wa= s failing to start properly. I was suspicious=0A> of the following line:= =0A> =0A> """=0A> 418 22:46:10 sendto(8, "<13>Jan 26 22:46:10 gdm: GdmMan= ager: couldn't look up username=0A> gnome-initial-setup\n", 83, MSG_NOSIG= NAL, NULL, 0) =3D 83 <5.487224>=0A> """=0A> =0A> so I removed gnome-initi= al-setup from the propagated-inputs with the following patch, and, indeed= ,=0A> that resolved the problem with gdm on my system.=0A=0AThat's strang= e. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me gdm works fine= with gnome-initial-setup being present. This is confusing.=0A=0A> While = I'm still not exactly sure why this was causing gdm problems, and why `he= rd restart=0A> xorg-server` caused gdm to start working correctly, I thin= k that removing gnome-initial-setup from=0A> the gnome meta-package is th= e right thing to do. Instead, perhaps it could be provided via its own=0A= > service, auto-selected by the installer. If I recall correctly from oth= er distros (e.g. Fedora),=0A> the gnome-initial-setup wizard is run from = its own user on first boot, and after it finishes, the=0A> user is logged= in as themselves. That said, gnome-initial-setup did seem to run fine fo= r me the=0A> first time I logged into gnome after it was installed, and h= asn't stared again.=0A> =0A> Thoughts?=0A=0AI would say debugging and fix= ing would be better than removing. Let me see what I can do.=0A =0A> P.S.= Thanks Raghav for your work on making gnome in guix a better experience!= =0A=0A10-4 on the sarcasm. ;-)=0A=0ARegards,=0ARG.