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:

 <policy user="gdm">

to:
 <policy user="root">

Now try stating GDM, and you should get a working login console.


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