On Sunday 26 September 2021 01:59:05 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Follow the clues form the blog below:
>
> https://economictheoryblog.com/2015/11/08/how-to-enable-gui-root-login-in-debian-8/
>
> Edit /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf and add
>
> AllowRoot=true under [security]
>
> Then edit /etc/pam.d/g
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:03:26PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:36:34 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> > If the system will not let you login as root from the graphical
> > display manager, it's the GDM's fault. It may be a configurable
> > option in its /etc/whatever
On Sun 26 Sep 2021 at 13:03:26 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:36:34 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> > If the system will not let you login as root from the graphical
> > display manager, it's the GDM's fault. It may be a configurable
> > option in its /etc/whateverdm.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
Hi Roy,
> On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> > The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have
> > happened without you noticing.
>
> Life has handed me a whole mess of thing
On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:36:34 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> If the system will not let you login as root from the graphical
> display manager, it's the GDM's fault. It may be a configurable
> option in its /etc/whateverdm. If not, you can always replace a
> recalcitrant GDM with original xdm, whi
On Saturday 25 September 2021 06:08:23 pm Andy Smith wrote:
> The release of the three newer stable versions of Debian seems to have
> happened without you noticing.
Life has handed me a whole mess of things to deal with over the past year or
two...
> If you remain subscribed to this mailing l
On Sb, 25 sep 21, 22:08:23, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>
> > The only thing that works there is to log in as a regular user,
> > and then use the su command to get there. A bit of a pain. Where
> > in the software is this controll
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote:
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
[Upgrading from Debian 8.11]
don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that
ancient.
I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machin
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
[Upgrading from Debian 8.11]
> don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that
> ancient.
I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machines in the
year preceding the 11 release
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> Lots of differences! systemd instead of init, grub instead of LILO, and
> probably many more than I'd want to list here.
As it turns out, these are just the defaults.
> I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades. Mostly
> it's been a matter of r
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
...
> For whatever it's worth, I have no problems with a text-based login screen
> and then typing startx once I've logged in, which is pretty typical of my
> Slackware installations anyhow. The copy of Slackware that's running my
> server machine doesn't even have
Hi Roy,
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades.
> Mostly it's been a matter of running synaptic package manager from
> time to time, and that's about it. Except that lately it doesn't
> seem to be finding
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