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Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates |
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Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:33:37 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I just tested the new(er) GNOME on staging and unfortunately it is *not*
>> working. I reconfigured my workstation which previously also used
>> GNOME.
>>
>> I see a mouse pointer appearing, but gnome-shell never seems to properly
>> start. (I’m using auto-login, so I don’t see the GDM login prompt first.)
[…]
> Everything in the VM seems to work, as discussed on IRC.
>
> So this suggests that the problem may have to do with state kept
> somewhere in GSettings or who knows what.
>
> Could you share logs from /var/log/messages, /var/log/gdm/greeter.log,
> and anything that may be relevant?
The logs are not helpful at all. I even went through an strace of gdm
and couldn’t find anything interesting amidst all the noise.
Turns out that the problem was with a stale /var/lib/gdm – which makes
me wonder: we do we have this at all? “/var/lib/gdm” is the “gdm” user
account’s home directory. But it’s not like this really needs to be
persistent, I think.
I moved it out of the way and the gdm login prompt appeared within a few
seconds. After restarting xorg-server the directory was recreated.
Now, I *still* cannot actually log in, but the problem is likely very
similar.
[two minutes pass]
Yup, after moving /home/rekado/.cache out of the way, everything is fine
and I can log in.
What should we do about this? For gdm I think it would make sense to
add an activation service extension that clears the gdm user’s home
directory. And more generally, maybe we should offer a generic cache
cleaner service.
Thoughts?
--
Ricardo
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Efraim Flashner, 2019/04/01
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/04/10
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/15
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/15
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/04/15
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Timothy Sample, 2019/04/16
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/04/16
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/16
- Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/22