On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Esben Stien <b...@esben-stien.name> wrote: >> message: >> gdm-binary Warning >> >> Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager: Connection ":1.3" is not >> allowed to own the service "org.gnome.DisplayManager" due to security >> policies in the configuration file >> >> ** (gdm-binary:2371): WARNING **: Could not acquire name; bailing out > > Did you ever find a solution to this?. I have a solution: Edit /etc/gnome/2.28.2/dbus-1/system.d/gdm.conf. Change this line:
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