Oh I see. All the users of this machine are registered in an openldap and so no regular "local" (etc/password) users (except a root I think). Could that also trigger this process?
Many thanks! Le mer. 13 nov. 2024 à 18:18, Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bi...@canonical.com> a écrit : > > 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
