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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:55:12 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Hello,

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> Turns out that the problem was with a stale /var/lib/gdm =E2=80=93 which=
 makes
>> me wonder: we do we have this at all?  =E2=80=9C/var/lib/gdm=E2=80=9D is=
 the =E2=80=9Cgdm=E2=80=9D user
>> account=E2=80=99s home directory.  But it=E2=80=99s not like this really=
 needs to be
>> persistent, I think.
>
> Yes, I wonder if it=E2=80=99s supposed to be persistent in the first plac=
e.  I
> guess ~gdm/.cache can help speed things up maybe, and perhaps there are
> persistent settings too, like the a18n stuff?
>
>> I moved it out of the way and the gdm login prompt appeared within a few
>> seconds.  After restarting xorg-server the directory was recreated.
>
> So I moved ~gdm/.cache and ~/.cache out of the way and restarted
> =E2=80=98xorg-server=E2=80=99.  After that, I was still unable to log in

I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories
around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account
(logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.)

I even tried upgrading the user=E2=80=99s profile just in case is contained
incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn=E2=80=99t help.

What extra bit of state am I missing?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.