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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
