Heya

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, 00:38 Ludovic Courtès, <l...@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that
> > selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK.  Signing in to GDM
> > however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a
> > ratpoison session.  It is not clear to me what causes the issue, but I'm
> > happy to help debug if someone can provide me with pointers on doing so.
> >
> > Intuitively, I would hazard a guess that the initialisation of ratpoison
> > fails and the session is aborted, at which point GDM is restarted.
>
> Isn’t it just that GDM defaults to GNOME (not ratpoison), but since
> GNOME isn’t available, it loops back?
>
> What if you click on the small gear and select ratpoison?
>

You are 100% correct! Thanks for that pointer - I hadn't considered it
would still default to gnome! :)

Cheers,

Alex



> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> Ludo’.
>

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