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* bug#35068: GDM crashes when it cannot find any .desktop files
@ 2019-04-01  8:05 Ludovic Courtès
  2019-04-20 15:06 ` Danny Milosavljevic
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2019-04-01  8:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 35068

Hello,

I used to have a config (when using SLiM) where my system profile did
not contain any window manager, so no .desktop files.  Instead, the WM
would be installed in my profile and ~/.xsession would start it and a
couple of other things.

Unfortunately GDM crashes in that context.  More precisely, after
choosing the user name on the log-in screen, it enters an infinite loop
with an assertion failure:

  gdm_session_set_environment_variable: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

At that point you pretty much have to reboot since it becomes very hard
to type at the console.  (You can try it in a VM.)

The workaround is to add at least one window manager to the system’s
‘packages’ field.

It would be nice to fix it now that GDM is our default log-in manager.

Ludo’.

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2019-04-01  8:05 bug#35068: GDM crashes when it cannot find any .desktop files Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-20 15:06 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-20 20:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-21  9:37   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-21  9:43     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-21 20:12     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 18:49       ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-25 19:15         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-26  1:02           ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-26  9:36             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-26  8:10         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-26 18:32           ` Timothy Sample
2019-04-26 18:32             ` bug#35377: " Timothy Sample
2019-04-27 16:27             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-27 16:27               ` [bug#35377] " Ludovic Courtès

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