On 3/26/2019 5:17 PM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote:

> Hi I've got an new LFS that I can't start at the moment because of a fault 
> with GDM. I get a blank screen, where the only way out is with 
> Ctrl-Alt-delete.
>> Apparently one can turn debugging on through the the 'config' file. I've 
>> tried this and get nothing. How do I get logging working? Or is it the 
>> journal only?>> thanks>


>I'm not using systemd-jouranld at the moment, so I can't answer your
>question directly. Looks like daemon/gdm-launch-environment.c doesn't
>guard the greeter logging with systemd ifdefs, so probably does the
>logging itself in /var/log/gdm/greeter.log. I could be wrong on that, I
>only looked briefly, but I might be able to assist with the problem
>itself. A blank screen implies that we are not able to create a display.
>Make certain that you've built systemd with all of the recommended deps
>in BLFS, that you've updated the Linux PAM files at the end of the
>systemd page in BLFS, and double check that you've built Cairo with the
>additional flag --enable-gl (required for Wayland). If you've omitted
>>that flag, I'm not absolutely certain, but I think you'll also need to
>rebuild mutter, gnome-session, and gdm (so that "wayland" is a valid
>value for XDG_SESSION_TYPE).

Thanks.  I ended up rebuilding gnome-shell and subsequently 
/etc/pam.d/systemd-user, which wasn't right from the first build.

I can now boot into gnome from the command line using ~/.xinitrc.  GDM has yet 
to be tested.

Cliff
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