On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 11:36 AM Patrice Duroux <patrice.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was surprised that after an update on a server machine to unstable > and a reboot, I was facing a gnome-initial-setup process on the server > console display. > Is gdm supposed to also run gnome-initial-setup for its own Debian-gdm user? > I was also surprised then by some of the questions during the process > if this is something expected.
If there are no regular users on the system, then GDM runs GNOME Initial Setup in New User mode. (This actually is the only supported mode for gnome-initial-setup upstream.) New User mode provides an easy way to create a regular user account that you can then log into with GDM. Otherwise, GDM would not show any users and could not really be used. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
