Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> 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
