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gdm doesn't start

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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>, Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>
Cc: sirgazil <at> zoho.com, 39281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39281: gdm doesn't start
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:37:37 +0100

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Am Montag, den 27.01.2020, 06:24 +0100 schrieb Leo Prikler:
> Perhaps some GNOME people know how to disable this in other ways, but
> it's the first time I've even seen the dialog, so there's not much
> else I can say.
Welp, I found the culprit.  It appears to be a bug in gdm-service-type
rather than the gnome meta-package.  Specifically, the default GDM
setting appears to be to launch the initial-setup inside GDM "on first
boot", whatever GDM interprets that to be.  This can be disabled by
setting "daemon/InitialSetupEnable=false".
Adding this setting to GDM does not affect the initial user setup,
which is probably what raghavgururajan wanted to achieve with the
inclusion of this package into gnome.  It only skips the initial system
setup -- a step that Guix should already take care of on its own.

I've attached a patch, that should take care of this bug.  So far, I've
only tested it in a VM (with the package added back into gnome), so it
would be nice if one of you could test this with a real reboot before
commiting.

Regards,
Leo

[0001-services-Disable-initial-setup-in-GDM.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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