On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:25:31AM +0100, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem with a LFS box at startup. I've tracked the problem to GDM. > The kernel starts okay then Xorg stops. I've managed to access the journal > and the error concerns the /var/lib/gdm dir. > > I've been unable to solve it. And it keeps happening, i.e I have restored > the system from backup and after a couple of boots the error reoccurs each > time with a core dump. This problem 'just happened' for no reason. This is > the mystery.
[...] > Jan 17 22:11:41 alienware-r17 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3795]: (EE) > Jan 17 22:11:41 alienware-r17 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3795]: Fatal server > error: > Jan 17 22:11:41 alienware-r17 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[3795]: (EE) Cannot > open log file "/var/lib/gdm/.local/> Hi Cliff, at a guess there is something wrong with that directory (non-existent, or wrong owner or wrong perms). Possibly http://www.mgreene.org/?p=302 Pasting from that, since you cannot run X (note that his log was in .local/share not .local) | On a new Gentoo install, GDM kept failing to start: | | (EE) Cannot open log file "/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg ...log | |Found: | |The GDM install changed the ownership of | /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications to gdm.gdm – but it did not | change the ownership of the parent directory | /var/lib/gdm/.local/share … | | Simple solution, chown -R gdm.gdm /var/lib/gdm HTH ĸen -- The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
