From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alex sassmannshausen Subject: Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test! Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:11:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87369c1ixm.fsf@gnu.org> <87eesv2vpd.fsf@gmail.com> <87eesvuftt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000001c89a805a3003db5" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jNCB1-0004sG-QE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:11:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jNCB0-00031C-LW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:11:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eesvuftt.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel --0000000000001c89a805a3003db5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Heya On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, 00:38 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s, wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > > > After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that > > selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK. Signing in to GDM > > however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a > > ratpoison session. It is not clear to me what causes the issue, but I'= m > > happy to help debug if someone can provide me with pointers on doing so= . > > > > Intuitively, I would hazard a guess that the initialisation of ratpoiso= n > > fails and the session is aborted, at which point GDM is restarted. > > Isn=E2=80=99t it just that GDM defaults to GNOME (not ratpoison), but sin= ce > GNOME isn=E2=80=99t available, it loops back? > > What if you click on the small gear and select ratpoison? > You are 100% correct! Thanks for that pointer - I hadn't considered it would still default to gnome! :) Cheers, Alex > Thanks for your feedback! > > Ludo=E2=80=99. > --0000000000001c89a805a3003db5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Heya

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, 00:38 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s, &= lt;ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi Alex,

Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>= skribis:

> After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that
> selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK.=C2=A0 Signing in to G= DM
> however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a > ratpoison session.=C2=A0 It is not clear to me what causes the issue, = but I'm
> happy to help debug if someone can provide me with pointers on doing s= o.
>
> Intuitively, I would hazard a guess that the initialisation of ratpois= on
> fails and the session is aborted, at which point GDM is restarted.

Isn=E2=80=99t it just that GDM defaults to GNOME (not ratpoison), but since=
GNOME isn=E2=80=99t available, it loops back?

What if you click on the small gear and select ratpoison?
<= /div>

You are 100% corre= ct! Thanks for that pointer - I hadn't considered it would still defaul= t to gnome! :)

Cheers,

Alex



Thanks for your feedback!

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