More about why I used the manual way. My reasoning was: if gdm is not running the might as well run gnome-shell via xinit. I tried but couldn't start it via xinit thus the use of manual way. But now I realized, I could use startx, but running startx doesn't launch gnome- shell either. Thus I concluded that maybe it's because gnome-shell is crashing why gdm is not showing the login screen, since running gnome- shell via startx or the manual way doesn't start gnome-shell too.
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