Re: gdm Bug: 61-gdm.rules sets Wayland to false, but X is not installed, then freezes

2024-12-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Dec 2024 08:32 +, from soc...@teclab.at: > I filed a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/959 > > Not sure if you want/need me to file another bug in the Debian bug system. > > Asking for advice. Generally the recommended way to do it is to file a bug

gdm Bug: 61-gdm.rules sets Wayland to false, but X is not installed, then freezes

2024-12-20 Thread soc...@teclab.at
Dear Debian Users, I filed a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/959 Not sure if you want/need me to file another bug in the Debian bug system. Asking for advice. Regards Thomas

Re: System hangs at GDM login or a bit later...

2024-04-07 Thread nimrod
ed, 2024-03-27 at 18:32 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM nimrod wrote: > > > > > > I'm having this annoying behaviour from GDM (or something > > > related). > > > > > > Quite ofter, after the GDM login screen app

Re: System hangs at GDM login or a bit later...

2024-03-31 Thread nimrod
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 18:32 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM nimrod wrote: > > > > I'm having this annoying behaviour from GDM (or something related). > > > > Quite ofter, after the GDM login screen appears, the host freezes >

Re: System hangs at GDM login or a bit later...

2024-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM nimrod wrote: > > I'm having this annoying behaviour from GDM (or something related). > > Quite ofter, after the GDM login screen appears, the host freezes completely: > every input device is unresponsive, no ssh connection from another hos

System hangs at GDM login or a bit later...

2024-03-27 Thread nimrod
Hi, I'm having this annoying behaviour from GDM (or something related). Quite ofter, after the GDM login screen appears, the host freezes completely: every input device is unresponsive, no ssh connection from another host is possible any more, no CTRL+ALT+CANC/F1-F6 is working. But the

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-19 Thread Morgan Read
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described here: > >> https://github.com/ca

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-18 Thread Morgan Read
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00:38PM +, Morgan Read wrote: >>> Starting that from / is horrifying. I would have started from >>> /home, >> >> But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to >> achieve the end sought? > > I'm not quite sure what that "end" is. W

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:46:51PM +0100, Morgan Read wrote: > On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: > >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as > >> described here: > >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/15

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-16 Thread Morgan Read
On 11/08/2021 11:30 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: >> After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as >> described here: >> https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issuecomment-846321060 >> And, (unnecessarily as it turned out) re-i

Re: Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 8/11/21 6:45 AM, Morgan Read wrote: Hi List, Since my cry for (fairly minor) help here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/08/msg00461.html I think I've dug myself into a bit of a deep hole. After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as described here: https://github

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I was attempting to modify >> # for i in `find / -user 1001`; do chown 3001 $i; done > Dear gods. That violates at least two *major* rules of the shell. It looks exactly like the kind of code I would write if I were trying to "innocently" introduce a backdoor. Stefan

Re: Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
> Starting that from / is horrifying.  I would have started from /home, Ah, well, yes.  I was rather throwing caution to the wind.  But, when you put off doing a job for months and then you finally get round to doing it, there's an element of recklessness that sneaks in.  I guess there's a moral

Re: Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00:38PM +, Morgan Read wrote: > > Starting that from / is horrifying.  I would have started from /home, > > But, all recklessness aside - what would be the correct command to achieve > the end sought? I'm not quite sure what that "end" is. We were never given the

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
Thanks Il and Zoltan, In a nutshell - yes, yes, and yes... However, I only realised the error when I logged into my headless server terminal where I use an 'admin' user account rather than root for admin as I did on my laptop - thus, on my laptop I was never confronted with a failed terminal login

Can't boot following re-install to LVM on LUKS [was: can't login via gdm]

2021-08-11 Thread Morgan Read
Hi List, Since my cry for (fairly minor) help here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/08/msg00461.html I think I've dug myself into a bit of a deep hole. After having overcome a fairly fundamental bug with calamares as described here: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1564#issu

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:26:43PM +, Morgan Read wrote: > So, it seems that > # find / -user 1002 -execdir chown 1003 '{}' \; > Didn't perform as I expected... Starting that from / is horrifying. I would have started from /home, and then if you suspect you have other files outside of /home t

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-10 Thread Zoltán Herman
or try login as root IL Ka ezt írta (időpont: 2021. aug. 10., K 12:35): > >> I ran the following to change my users UID & GIDs - but, now I have no >> graphic gdm login. I have no problem with a terminal login and the >> same worked on a terminal based server. >

Re: can't login via gdm

2021-08-10 Thread IL Ka
> > > I ran the following to change my users UID & GIDs - but, now I have no > graphic gdm login. I have no problem with a terminal login and the > same worked on a terminal based server. > > Check your logs with journalctl. There is also ~/.xsession-errors, but you pro

can't login via gdm

2021-08-10 Thread Morgan Read
Hello List, I ran the following to change my users UID & GIDs - but, now I have no graphic gdm login. I have no problem with a terminal login and the same worked on a terminal based server. After boot, gdm attempts to start but fails with a blinking cursor in the top left corner - I can sw

Re: Booting is frozen on GDM Firmware problem

2021-03-11 Thread arnuld
I used these ISOs to install: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/bt-dvd/ https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/bullseye_di_alpha3+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non

Re: Booting is frozen on GDM Firmware problem

2021-03-10 Thread arnuld
BTW, I used this firmware ISO image to insall Debian: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/bt-dvd/ -- Regards, ARNULD

Booting is frozen on GDM + Firmware problem

2021-03-10 Thread arnuld
I just installed Debian Buster with GNOME on my laptop. Whenever I boot it, it just freezes on "Starting GDM". During installation, I got this messsage: """Some of your hardware requires non-free firmware to operate... The missing firmware files are: ath10k/pre-cal-pc

Re: Driver issues with GDM

2020-11-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi Andrew, On my Dell 5510 the Wi-Fi is working only after installing firmware-iwlwifi from debian non-free: wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_20200918-1_all.deb dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_20200918-1_all.deb Kind regards, Eugen

Re: Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-27 Thread AW
On 26/11/2020 09:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Most likely the package you need is firmware-iwlwifi, possibly the version in buster-backports. https://packages.debian.org/firmware-iwlwifi Kind regards, Andrei Thanks everyone Ive upgraded it to testing which got GDM working and the firmware

Re: Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 25 nov 20, 20:17:01, AW wrote: > Ive got a new Dell Lattitude 3410 with "Integrated Intel UHD for 10th > Generation Intel Core i3-10110U graphics" and Intel wifi but I cannot get > either of them working properly on Debian 10. Ive tried installing > firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-linux

Re: Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-25 Thread Dan Ritter
AW wrote: > Ive got a new Dell Lattitude 3410 with "Integrated Intel UHD for 10th > Generation Intel Core i3-10110U graphics" and Intel wifi but I cannot get > either of them working properly on Debian 10. Ive tried installing > firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-linux but it still wont progress

Driver issues with GDM & wifi on Intel

2020-11-25 Thread AW
Ive got a new Dell Lattitude 3410 with "Integrated Intel UHD for 10th Generation Intel Core i3-10110U graphics" and Intel wifi but I cannot get either of them working properly on Debian 10. Ive tried installing firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-linux but it still wont progress past 'Starting

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-04 Thread Kenneth C. Schalk
By any chance, is your user account defined in a network-based authentication database, like NIS or LDAP? Yes, exactly so, it's defined by NIS. The machine where gdm login is failing is an NIS client bound to a different Debian machine (still on Debian stretch) which acts as the NIS s

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 12:26:35PM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > > By any chance, is your user account defined in a network-based > > authentication database, like NIS or LDAP? > > Yes, exactly so, it's defined by NIS. https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster * The security settings for some com

Re: After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > After looking through logs for a while, I suspect that this error > message from the X server might be the best clue as to what's going > wrong: > > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) > > A

After buster upgrade gdm login not working

2019-09-01 Thread Kenneth C. Schalk
After upgrading to buster, attempting to login using gdm returns me immediately back to gdm, with the session apparently failing to start up correctly. I've tried to figure out what's going wrong but I'm a bit stumped and I could use some help resolving this. After looking thr

[SOLVED] (was: [Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background)

2018-01-07 Thread Leandro Noferini
Floris writes: >>> I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my [...] > There is no easy way to change the gdm3 theme, but you can. The Arch > Wiki has a small how-to: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM Thanks a lot, I managed to change th

Re: [Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background

2018-01-06 Thread Floris
Op Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:38:29 +0100 schreef Leandro Noferini : Leandro Noferini writes: I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my laptop (to put into my contacts); I looked for a solution but none of my findings worked: is there a way to change this background

Re: [Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background

2018-01-05 Thread Leandro Noferini
Leandro Noferini writes: > I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my > laptop (to put into my contacts); I looked for a solution but none of my > findings worked: is there a way to change this background that actually > works? Any help? In the meantime

[Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background

2018-01-03 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my laptop (to put into my contacts); I looked for a solution but none of my findings worked: is there a way to change this background that actually works? -- Ciao leandro http://6xukrlqedfabdjrb.onion/blog/ Alla

Re: gdm login console keyboard settings are propagated to LUKS boot password prompt by initramfs-tools triggers

2017-07-29 Thread Fungi4All
eferences panel, on the gdm login > screen, as the only available keymap. > I noticed that, when aptitude runs, for any reason, initramfs-tools > ,..snip...WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" > The missing firmware messages are OK, as you would think, but setupcon

Re: Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2017-07-10 Thread D Geis
In case anyone else finds this through an internet search, I've figure out how to make the fix work; gdm3 uses the 'monitors.xml' format that gnome3 uses, so if you are set to a different desktop manager (cinnamon, in my case) the fix won't work. Solution: In the gdm login

gdm login console keyboard settings are propagated to LUKS boot password prompt by initramfs-tools triggers

2017-06-22 Thread David Guyot
Hello, there. I noticed a strange thing: I use LUKS to encrypt my system, so it asks me the passphrase at boot. As a bépo (a French Dvorak-like keymap) user, I configured it, using Gnome preferences panel, on the gdm login screen, as the only available keymap. I noticed that, when aptitude runs

Re: With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-14 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, At the end of my email (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg00437.html) I wrote : "It would be nice if someone could answer that it works on his system : Jessie, gdm3 with xdmcp enabled and Windows PC emulating a X11 server with xlaunch (through Cygwin or another free soft

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-12 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
n the server ran on Wheezy, I am still trying to launch gdm3. The story is the same for the console (when the system restarts) and for the Windows PC (at each launching of xlaunch): I get during a split second a gray background screen, probably corresponding to the GDM face browser, followed durin

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed

2016-10-11 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
with gnome, when the server ran on Wheezy, I am still trying to launch gdm3. The story is the same for the console (when the system restarts) and for the Windows PC (at each launching of xlaunch): I get during a split second a gray background screen, probably corresponding to the GDM face browse

Setting up gdm output display in stretch

2016-04-30 Thread Isaac To
ing like "echo hello > /tmp/hello" into that file will not create the /tmp/hello file after X gets started. The other solution is to copy my ~/.config/monitors.xml to ~Debian-gdm/monitors.xml. Again, nothing happen, the file simply gets ignored. I've also tried to add something to /e

Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-11 Thread Sureyya Sahin
> > > having > > > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on first > > > boot. I > > > can't move the mouse and only touchscreen works. If I reboot > > > everything works fine. > > > > > > I guess this may be

Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-11 Thread Sureyya Sahin
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 18:34 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am > > having > > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on

Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am having > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on first boot. I > can't move the mouse and only touchscreen works. If I reboot >

Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-11 Thread Sureyya Sahin
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 11:17 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am > > having > > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on

Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am having > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on first boot. I > can't move the mouse and only touchscreen works. If I reboot >

gnome gdm freeze on first boot

2016-01-10 Thread Sureyya Sahin
Hi, I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am having this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on first boot. I can't move the mouse and only touchscreen works. If I reboot everything works fine. I guess this may be a bug related to Gnome. Is there any workaroun

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 28 November 2015 06:40:57 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > So the wiki might better have said "stop any X servers running on your > machine" -- and then proceed to explain what that means and how to > achieve that. It is a Wiki. ;-) Lisi

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread tomas
X), then run: > > # /etc/init.d/gdm stop && /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop && /etc/init.d/kdm > stop && /etc/init.d/xdm stop > $ cd /etc/X11/ > # Xorg -configure > > Alternatively, reboot the machine in single user mode, then run: > > $ cd /etc/X11/ > # Xorg -c

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
in advance if it's some part of what you've already been trying. YES, I know it says "missing" but I still see potential in it. Cut and pasted, it pretty much says: +++ If xorg.conf is missing for some reason, Xorg will probe your hardware on every startup. Though this works

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/15 10:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is the prim

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: > My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old > one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main > monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is > the primary one and the original 24inch one ha

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
monitor is [...] But gdm3 has decided it is going to come up on the secondary monitor. First answer from here says to copy your correctly set up ~/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm3/.config/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/11738/force-gdm-login-screen-to-the-primary-monitor TL;DR I tried

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
t; But gdm3 has decided it is going to come up on the secondary monitor. First answer from here says to copy your correctly set up ~/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm3/.config/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/11738/force-gdm-login-screen-to-the-primary-monitor -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/15 06:54, Alan Chandler wrote: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Iiyama 27in" Option "DPMS" Option "Primary" Option "Position" "0 0" Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080" Option "Position" "1920 0" EndSection I noticed as I posted this that there are two "Position" o

Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is the primary one and the original 24inch one has become my secondary. I have altered

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure - Solved

2015-05-13 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:07:28PM CEST, "Thomas H. George" said: > The solution was to remove a duplicate entry from fstab. > > dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 exited with a line about the duplicate entry in > fstab. My fstab is a mess of entries because whenever I connected a usb > storage device it wou

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure - Solved

2015-05-13 Thread Thomas H. George
The solution was to remove a duplicate entry from fstab. dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 exited with a line about the duplicate entry in fstab. My fstab is a mess of entries because whenever I connected a usb storage device it would be reported as a device such as sr, sr0, sr1, sg0, sdd1, etc. For each I m

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:31:41PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 11.05.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Thomas H. George: > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: > >>> I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION O

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): > The dist-upgrade with no apparent problems but gdm3 desktop failed to > open. I ran /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart which failed with messages to > check systemctl status gdm.service and journalctl -xn. The outputs of > these commands are given below. >

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Thomas H. George: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: >>> I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW >>> COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN US

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 11 May 2015 22:10:50 Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A > > > NEW COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO TH

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: > > I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW > > COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO > > HELP. > > Maybe noone kn

Re: wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 11 May 2015 20:52:27 Thomas H. George wrote: > I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF JESSIE ON A NEW > COMPUTER, POSTED THE DESCRIPTION TO THE DEBIAN USER LIST AND RECEIVE NO > HELP. Maybe noone knew the answer. There's no need to shout. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

wheezy to jessie upgrade: gdm system.d failure

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas H. George
The dist-upgrade with no apparent problems but gdm3 desktop failed to open. I ran /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart which failed with messages to check systemctl status gdm.service and journalctl -xn. The outputs of these commands are given below. I ENCOUNTERED THIS SAME PROBLEM WITH THE INSTILLATION OF J

Gnome/gdm mouse invisible after login and cannot set brigtness

2015-01-22 Thread Podrigal, Aron
I'm experiencing some issues after I upgraded a list of packages by running apt-get upgrade. Everything seems to start properly, but after logging in gnome, the mouse pointer disappears. In addition to that I've noticed that during the time the mouse is not visible, I cannot set the brightness thr

Re: Lost group after upgrade and GDM issue

2014-05-13 Thread Sylvain Archenault
I found this bug report [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747292] that suggested that the init system could be the issue. I turn on systemd - and it works better. On 05/13/2014 09:09 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: Hello, I'm running sid, and after a recent upgrade (I could

Lost group after upgrade and GDM issue

2014-05-13 Thread Sylvain Archenault
Hello, I'm running sid, and after a recent upgrade (I could not pin point exactly which one), my user lost all of the groups it was part of. I added them back manually, but I'm still unable to mount USB drive from nautilus automatically: # groups sylvain sylvain : sylvain adm disk lp cdrom s

Re: Gnome (wheezy): How to set GDM speech (Orca) language?

2014-03-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/03/14 16:22, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I set my system language to es_AR.UTF-8, but Orca seems to ignore this. > When logged in, I can configure Orca to use Spanish, but what about GDM, > i.e. before log in? The buttons etc. are in English, but Orca pronounces >

Re: Gnome (wheezy): How to set GDM speech (Orca) language?

2014-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Hi, I set my system language to es_AR.UTF-8, but Orca seems to ignore this. When logged in, I can configure Orca to use Spanish, but what about GDM, i.e. before log in? The buttons etc. are in English, but Orca pronounces it all in English. Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-09 Thread fireball
Your suggestion WORKED! I was able to remove enough of the NVIDIA cruft so that apt-get would install gdm3. My desktop environment is now working, thanks to your suggestion. THANK YOU! -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze-to

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread Kailash
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze-to-wheezy-tp2970296p2970450.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hi, I found a similar bug-report here:

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrade-from-squeeze-to-wheezy-tp2970296p2970458.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
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gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
I upgraded my Debian system from squeeze to wheezy. Now gdm is broken. I am attaching the Xorg.0.log file. Any suggestions? Xorg.0.log <http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/file/n2970296/Xorg.0.log> -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/gdm-broken-after-upgrad

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 12:35 -0400, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Okay, thanks for the help. > > I went to the Debian Squeeze package page for gdm3 and looked for the > X11 dependencies. I used them in an apt-get install --reinstall > command as follows: > > apt-get install --reinstall libx11-6 li

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Ralf Mardorf : That's the culprit: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2389): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
That's the culprit: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2389): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority at name org.freedesktop.

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
last night. apt would suggest to remove a whole slew of libraries. Unfortunately, I let it. It did it again today. I included that in the file. Why is it saying it cannot be verified? That was new last night, too. So, do you or does anyone else know how to restore X so that gdm will work

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Linux. "start" isn't the only option, other, perhaps all options are stop| restart|status. If X shouldn't start, you should take a look at the log files, it's likely that GDM isn't broken, but that something is fishy with X. As root or user run grep EE /var/log/Xo

gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
` sudo apt-get install libtool automake autoconf sudo apt-get install flex bison texinfo sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxaw7-dev All applications worked. I shutdown the machine. This morning, gdm would not start and I don't have any networking. Since the things I want to keep are locat

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
> From: "Morel Bérenger" [mailto:berenger.mo...@neutralite.org] > > It would generalize the > > principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single > > inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it > > really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sideste

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Morel Bérenger
> It would generalize the > principle, but it's a bit like multiple inheritance in C++ vs. single > inheritance plus multiple interfaces in Java. Multiple is nice, but it > really is a can of worms, which Java tries to sidestep. Mostly, people > are just going to say that you can get what you wan

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-22 Thread Mark Allums
> > How about running two different DMs? Isn't that what that's for? > > Can't have competing DMs like KDM, GDM, and LightDM. But why > > shouldn't LXDE and e17 run at the same time? > > Or Xfce4 and Xfce4 and Gnome and Xfce4? (I assume you mean DEs,

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-21 Thread Morel Bérenger
On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello to all! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> S

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:06 -0600 "Mark Allums" wrote: > > Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : > > >> From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > > >> On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > >>> Hello to all! > >

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:32:40 -0600 "Mark Allums" wrote: > [...] > As far as starting a new session at GDM, wouldn't it be like starting > any other session with GDM? Just choose your window manager+DE with > the pulldown menu? What am I missing? At the moment when

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
> Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : > >> From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > >> On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > >>> Hello to all! > >>> > >>> How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? > >>>

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) > > On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > Hello to a

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Kent West
On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open) and want to quickly report a bug. But before I do that, I want to check if the same happe

Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open) and want to quickly report a bug. But before I do that, I want to check if the same happens in GNOME. xfswitch-plugin ("User swi

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
es.. it is not anymore. after a while it does even fail, > and only a shutdown helps.. logout is not enough. after hibernate, also the > wifi fails.. > > i love Debian... :-( > > lukas > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/help

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-18 Thread lalberts
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Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-18 Thread lalberts
that would have been the right point to answer ? -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/help-with-keyboard-lost-at-GDM-login-tp2803000p2806270.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-18 Thread lalberts
sorry for messing up the thread too.. not only my laptop.. lukas -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/help-with-keyboard-lost-at-GDM-login-tp2803000p2806269.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-18 Thread lalberts
whatyouarelookingfor.. lukas -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/help-with-keyboard-lost-at-GDM-login-tp2803000p2806267.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-18 Thread lalberts
.. how can i contribute to the bug-report? lukas -- View this message in context: http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/help-with-keyboard-lost-at-GDM-login-tp2803000p2806244.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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