From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem logging in using GDM
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:58:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnisjvu7.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018163132.nixtlppamekqoqvy@rafflesia>
Hi Tanguy
> So, symptoms are: when I try to log in using GDM, it goes black and…
> *bang* goes back to the login screen!
[…]
> Unfortunately, removing the gdm/gnome temp files [2] didn't solve the
> problem!
>
> [2]: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gdm
> rm -rf .cache/gnome-*
> rm -rf .local/share/gnome-shell/application_state
>
> Any help welcome!
Pity, that would have been my suggestion, as this usually fixes any
problems with GDM and gnome-shell for me after upgrades.
The question here is: is it a failure of GDM or gnome-shell? The exact
point where GDM starts gnome-shell is hard to pin-point, of course, but
the logs (even those on TTY1, Ctrl-Alt-F1) might tell you something
about whether it is gnome-shell that is crashing or if it doesn’t even
get that far.
Other problems may include a failure to start some user services via
dbus.
This is tricky and frustrating. I hope someone here will come up with
an idea to make this more robust.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-19 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 16:31 Problem logging in using GDM Tanguy Le Carrour
2019-10-19 14:18 ` Joshua Branson
2019-10-21 7:14 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
2019-10-19 20:29 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-19 20:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-10-19 21:24 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-21 7:03 ` Tanguy Le Carrour
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