[debbugs-tracker] bug#37423: closed (Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop)

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then back to GDM causes a really bad loop
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #37423,
regarding Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM 
causes a really bad loop
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> Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop
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> Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:51:54 +0200
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> Hi.
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> Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM makes
> GDM to loop like this:
> "New session c1 of user gdm."
> "Removed session c1."
> "New session c2 of user gdm."
> "Removed session c2."
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> And it continues like this to relatively high numbers like c167. Didn't
> check how far it could go, but that's not important anyway.
> Reverting to the previous definition of the system by using 
> "guix system switch-generation" or using grub menu entries doesn't help,
> changing /etc/config.scm back to the default gdm configuration and
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> "guix system reconfigure" doesn't help either.
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> There's also one strange thing that have happened before rebooting -
> when logging off, SLiM was running in a loop too - I couldn't turn off
> the computer using it, I had to switch to another tty and run "shutdown"
> manualy.
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> But reverting to a configuration with SLiM works - I can use the system
> with it, but can't with GDM anymore.
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> Jan Wielkiewicz
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> Re: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop
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> Hello,
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> Timothy Sample <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> Hi Gábor,
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> >> Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:
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> >>> Couldn't we simply do what the fix does: ensuring the owner of
> >>> the files under “/var/lib/gdm” is the current “gdm” user?
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> >> Hey you’re right, I was not approaching it from the right angle.
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> >> Here’s a patch that does that.  Thoughts?
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> > LGTM!  Though I don’t have a chance to test it at the moment, so all I
> > can really say is that it makes sense and I didn’t see any typos.  :)
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> I tested in a VM and it’s all good.  Pushed as
> f817901ee74fbc2f3c3322d473ad4c72b052499c.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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