bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Hi, thanks for the investigation and patch. Pushed to guix master as commit 9111f9750084cbc214d36e2ee16308f8edabf11d. Re-added gnome-initial-setup to gnome with commit 24882d3d9a0529f34217aac2da2c8d6e2a076a63. Closing bug report. pgpKnLzzyRQay.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:21:40 -0500 Jack Hill wrote > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, sirgazil wrote: > > > The initial setup window did not appear in my case, but I assume it is > > because somewhere in my system something says I already went through the > > setup (I did see the window

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:03:08 -0500 Jack Hill wrote > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Leo Prikler wrote: > > > I've attached a patch, that should take care of this bug. So far, I've > > only tested it in a VM (with the package added back into gnome), so it > > would be nice if one of you

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, sirgazil wrote: The initial setup window did not appear in my case, but I assume it is because somewhere in my system something says I already went through the setup (I did see the window in a previous boot). I beilieve this it tell if it has already run by looking for

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Leo Prikler wrote: I've attached a patch, that should take care of this bug. So far, I've only tested it in a VM (with the package added back into gnome), so it would be nice if one of you could test this with a real reboot before commiting. I'm happy to report that

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Am Montag, den 27.01.2020, 06:24 +0100 schrieb Leo Prikler: > Perhaps some GNOME people know how to disable this in other ways, but > it's the first time I've even seen the dialog, so there's not much > else I can say. Welp, I found the culprit. It appears to be a bug in gdm-service-type rather

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

> Indeed, my system does have a really slow disk, so it would not surprise me > if that contributed to > it. Of course that shouldn't matter, but that's the only thing I can think > it. It would be nice to > hear if sirgazil can reproduce the fix since I think they were having the > same

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:29:05 -0500 Danny Milosavljevic wrote > Patch applied to guix master as commit > 4fc4e5fdd9da6320aa94eeec61cbb84a7dc9460e > for now. > Problem solved for me :)

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: Hi, hmm, if you want to find out whether we could fix it, could you invoke: useradd gnome-initial-setup I added gnome-initial-setup to my operating system config and reconfigured with 94600c3960d7e2f12a3a9b6d2ed0d98ddacdd055 (the commit

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Patch applied to guix master as commit 4fc4e5fdd9da6320aa94eeec61cbb84a7dc9460e for now. pgprund5UBkYj.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Hi, hmm, if you want to find out whether we could fix it, could you invoke: useradd gnome-initial-setup (on the console via ctrl-alt-f1) and then reboot? If that doesn't fix it I'm all for removing gnome-initial-setup for the time being... pgpXmPIn6zNdT.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, sirgazil wrote: Was the patch already applied? Because I just pulled, reconfigured and I have the same problem: After a message like this No, the patch wasn't applied, as we're still not sure if there is a better fix. I applied it to my local copy of guix [0] to test.

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:08:44 -0500 Jack Hill wrote > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > >> so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the > >> following patch, and, indeed, > >> that resolved the problem with gdm on my system. > > > >

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Raghav Gururajan wrote: so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the following patch, and, indeed, that resolved the problem with gdm on my system. That's strange. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me gdm works fine with

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

> I believe that I've found the problem! Nice! > Using the technique that Ludo’ described in > , I was > able to grab an strace of gdm (attached) while it was failing to start > properly. I was suspicious > of the following line: > > """ > 418

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Am Sonntag, den 26.01.2020, 23:50 -0500 schrieb Jack Hill: > I believe that I've found the problem! > > Using the technique that Ludo’ described in > ;, I was able to grab an > strace > of gdm (attached) while it was failing to start properly. I was >

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

> According to my git bisect, d36fa50fbf8169018193774782fd21f1b13b9c0e [0] is > the culprit. It makes > some sense that the commit is gnome-related, but I have no idea why adding > more packages to the > environment should cause gdm to fail to run properly. Therefore, I am > inclined to believe

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

According to my git bisect, d36fa50fbf8169018193774782fd21f1b13b9c0e [0] is the culprit. It makes some sense that the commit is gnome-related, but I have no idea why adding more packages to the environment should cause gdm to fail to run properly. Therefore, I am inclined to believe that it is

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

I've started bisecting between my known bad and good commits. Unfortunately, this will be a slow process both because my computer is only so fast, and because rebooting to check a commit disrupts other work. That said, why checking one of the bad commits, I noticed that the gdm process was

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

For what is worth, I saw the following warnings when guix system reconfigure was running: https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/guix-system-reconfigure-2020-01-25.png

bug#39281: gdm doesn't start

Hi Guix, After a recent pull and system reconfigure, gdm does not start at boot. Instead, I am left with a text console login. sirgazil also described the problem on irc, "I just did guix pull and sudo system reconfigure, and GDM never started after waiting for about 10 minutes. This may be