From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Dec 30 14:00:23 2019 Received: (at 36924) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2019 19:00:24 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33410 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1im0H9-0008RJ-Nk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:00:23 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56384) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1im0H8-0008R8-4T for 36924@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:00:22 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1im0H2-00012s-Ln; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:00:16 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=44290 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1im0Gv-0006UG-Qs; Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:00:15 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: bug#36924: Xfce not starting References: <87tvawzlvq.fsf@elephly.net> <20191227072541.GA842@jurong> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 =?utf-8?Q?Niv=C3=B4se?= an 228 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:00:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20191227072541.GA842@jurong> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:25:41 +0100") Message-ID: <87o8vp63m0.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 36924 Cc: 36924@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge skribis: > after trying to reconfigure with commit 02b6382169192367e97a2d1bc72f8eb3e= d38b0dc > of December 9, I am now running into a problem where I cannot log into my= xfce > session under gdm any more: According to the first tty, a session is open= ed > and closed immediately again, and the gdm login screen reappears. Did you try your config with the same commit in =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2= =80=99? Does it reproduce the problem? If it does not, that means the problem has to do with state, things like /var/lib/gdm as you mentioned. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.