Hi, This old bug [1] is there since a long time. What is the status?
1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36924> On Sun, 04 Aug 2019 at 23:00, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > Today I again couldn’t log into my workstation after upgrading the > system. I’m using GDM + GNOME Shell. > > At first GDM wouldn’t start. I knew what to do: remove /var/lib/gdm, > because some state must have accumulated there. > > GDM came up after a reboot, but I still couldn’t log in. Instead I was > thrown back to the login screen without any error message. I looked in > ~/.cache/gdm/session.log for information, but it only told me that > gnome-shell was killed. Thanks. > > After removing both .local/share and .cache out of the way I could log > in again. > > This happens whenever I upgrade the system. This makes the system > rather frustrating to use. I don’t know if booting into an older system > generation would result in the same problem, but my guess is that it > would because both GDM and GNOME Shell appear to be leaving some binary > files behind that cause different versions to crash unceremoneously. > > What can we do to make GDM and GNOME Shell more reliable? Is it still an issue? Cheers, simon
