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On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had |
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>> an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). |
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>> With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going |
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>> round and round. |
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> I had a similar problem with GDM back when I first tried GNOME 3.0. |
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> The (very hard to track) reason was that my installation of GDM was |
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> really old, and the group for the gdm had changed from the 2.x days. I |
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> had to uninstall gdm, delete the user and group gdm, completely delete |
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> /var/lib/gdm, and install gdm again for it to work. |
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> What does |
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> $ grep gdm /etc/passwd |
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> $ grep gdm /etc/group |
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> say? |
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> Regards. |
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I have "fixed" the problem by downgrading polkit and udisks. |
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To answer your questions |
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oldlap ~ # grep gdm /etc/passwd |
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gdm:x:103:104:added by portage for gdm:/var/lib/gdm:/sbin/nologin |
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oldlap ~ # grep gdm /etc/group |
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video:x:27:root,gottlieb,gdm |
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gdm:x:104:gdm |
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oldlap ~ # |
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thanks, |
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allan |
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