From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: 44944@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44944: Unable to log into X session via gdm
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:02:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201129140240.546b1403@scratchpost.org> (raw)
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The latest guix system reconfigure (of yesterday) left me unable to login into
my X session. guix system rollback DID NOT fix it.
I would enter my password and it would "try" to login and return right back to
the gdm login screen.
I've since removed gdm from my OS configuration (because I have to do actual
*work* on this computer), but I think it would have been enough to just
chown /var/lib/gdm and rm ~/.xsession-errors (!) in order to make it work
again.
Does that mean that user ids are non-reproducible?
Why not have user_id = hash(user_name) ? Then they *are* reproducible.
(I've tried finding the spot where those user accounts are generated/updated
but so far have been unable to)
Anyway, this is just to record the problem and workaround. I won't do
further research on this problem on it on this computer.
The "gdm" system account is gone by now because I've removed gdm from the
OS configuration--and I don't plan on adding it ever again.
For reference, in order to remove gdm from the system configuration in
/etc/config.scm, do:
(1) Replace %desktop-services by
(remove (lambda (service) (eq? (service-kind service) gdm-service-type)) %desktop-services)
(2) Add (service slim-service-type) to SERVICES in /etc/config.scm
(3) guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
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next reply other threads:[~2020-11-29 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-29 13:02 Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2020-11-29 17:00 ` bug#44944: Unable to log into X session via gdm Marius Bakke
2020-11-29 21:20 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2022-09-16 19:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-16 21:03 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-20 14:49 ` bokr
2022-09-22 4:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-25 11:47 ` Maxime Devos
2022-09-27 0:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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