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GDM does not starts after April 10 system reconfigure

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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv <at> posteo.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40652: #36924 way solves the problem for me
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:57:26 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi Guillaume,
>
> Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv <at> posteo.net> skribis:
>
>> I don't know if it's related, but recently I had GDM crashes at boot
>> after reconfiguring a system using gdm-service-type (generation n) to
>> make it use slim-service-type instead (generation n+1), and then
>> reconfiguring to gdm-service-type again (generation n+2).
>>
>> The problem was that the 'gdm' user id number (or group id number) was
>> not the same in generations n and n+2, which prevented GDM from
>> accessing the '/var/lib/gdm' directory.
>
> When did that happen?
>
> Commit a43e9157ef479e94c19951cc9d228cf153bf78ee (Sep. 2019) supposedly
> ensures that /var/lib/gdm has proper ownership.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I think it was around 2 weeks ago.

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