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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: 40652@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:32:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnc7yjgd.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416053137.GA787@tulip>

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R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in> skribis:

> The solution in bug #36924 solved the problem in my system.
>
> Remove /var/lib/gdm and make a empty one instead.
>
> Thanks Rene!
>
> Regards,
> Veera

I don't know if it's related, but recently I had GDM crashes at boot
after reconfiguring a system using gdm-service-type (generation n) to
make it use slim-service-type instead (generation n+1), and then
reconfiguring to gdm-service-type again (generation n+2).

The problem was that the 'gdm' user id number (or group id number) was
not the same in generations n and n+2, which prevented GDM from
accessing the '/var/lib/gdm' directory.

Changing the permissions with "chown -R gdm.gdm /var/lib/gdm" or
deleting '/var/lib/gdm' to force the creation of a new one with correct
permissions allowed GDM to work correctly again.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-16  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16  0:20 bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16  1:14 ` bug#40652: SLIM is working though with gnome, mate, xfce and enlightenment R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16  2:58 ` bug#40652: Local build of gdm without gdm-xsession.patch still fails to start R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16  4:19 ` bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-16  4:53 ` Rene via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-16  5:31 ` bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16  7:32   ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2020-04-16  8:43     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-16  8:57       ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-16  9:24         ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-16 21:03           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-17  9:06             ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-04-18 16:40               ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-10  0:40   ` bug#40652: GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-16 14:05 ` sirgazil via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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