bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > This is not a Guix bug. Closing. > > Very many GDM restarts is what happens on Debian Stretch and Arch > (GNOME 3.32) as well after renaming /usr/share/xorg/modules, just like > it does on Guix. On Guix’ wip-gnome3.30 GDM fails in a different way; > maybe

bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
This is not a Guix bug. Closing. Very many GDM restarts is what happens on Debian Stretch and Arch (GNOME 3.32) as well after renaming /usr/share/xorg/modules, just like it does on Guix. On Guix’ wip-gnome3.30 GDM fails in a different way; maybe I will investigate further and then file a bug at

bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:22:57AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > I think the auto-restart code that’s triggered is in GDM itself, no? > Yes, you are right, I did not expect that. GDM gets stuck in a not-quite-endless loop of recreating its seat after Xo

bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > If GDM does not start for whatever reason, it attempts to restart 504 > more times which all fail and overwrite all five old logs. It > probably should not attempt to restart at all. I think the auto-restart code that’s triggered is in GDM itself, no

bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
If GDM does not start for whatever reason, it attempts to restart 504 more times which all fail and overwrite all five old logs. It probably should not attempt to restart at all. Regards, Florian