Subject: bug#36924: Xfce not starting

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:00:07 +0100

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <[email-masked]> skribis:

> after trying to reconfigure with commit 02b6382169192367e97a2d1bc72f8eb3ed38b0dc
> of December 9, I am now running into a problem where I cannot log into my xfce
> session under gdm any more: According to the first tty, a session is opened
> and closed immediately again, and the gdm login screen reappears.

Did you try your config with the same commit in ‘guix system vm’?  Does
it reproduce the problem?

If it does not, that means the problem has to do with state, things like
/var/lib/gdm as you mentioned.

Thanks,
Ludo’.