Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> I have news! The good part is that I got 54 packages to build on top of
>> master. The bad part is that when I try to use the resulting packages as
>> my system configuration, my computer gets stuck in tty1, and attempting
>> to switch to Xorg on tty7 leaves my screen frozen though the system is
>> still responsive.
>
> Have you tried removing /var/lib/gdm and the contents of your user
> account’s .local/share/gnome* directories?

I just did, and now tty7 simply shows a copy of tty1 rather than
irreversibly freezing my screen. What files are in /var/lib/gdm and
$HOME/.local/share/gnome that would have such an effect?