On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > OK, my fault. > > A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to xdm. > When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go: > > gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed. > > Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command. Tried > > systemctl reset-failed gdm.service > > exit code was 0 but problem was not fixed. > > tried apt-get install --reinstall gdm3 > > problem not fixed. > > What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl > commands? > > Any suggestions?
purged and reinstalled gdm3. Restarted gdm3 and again gdm.service failed. The output of journalctl -xn is Script started on Sun 08 Feb 2015 09:36:33 AM EST Zebra:~# joun[Krnal [Kctl -xn -- Logs begin at Sun 2015-02-08 09:12:45 EST, end at Sun 2015-02-08 09:31:13 EST. --[m Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mgdm.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1[0m[m Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mFailed to start GNOME Display Manager.[0m[m -- Subject: Unit gdm.service has failed[m -- Defined-By: systemd[m -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m -- [m -- Unit gdm.service has failed.[m -- [m -- The result is failed.[m Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mDependency failed for X11 Display Manager.[0m[m -- Subject: Unit x-display-manager.target has failed[m -- Defined-By: systemd[m -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m -- [m -- Unit x-display-manager.target has failed.[m -- [m -- The result is dependency.[m Feb 08 09:31:12 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mUnit gdm.service entered failed state.[0m[m Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mgdm.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.[0m[m Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mFailed to start GNOME Display Manager.[0m[m -- Subject: Unit gdm.service has failed[m -- Defined-By: systemd[m -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m -- [m -- Unit gdm.service has failed.[m -- [m -- The result is failed.[m Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;31mDependency failed for X11 Display Manager.[0m[m -- Subject: Unit x-display-manager.target has failed[m -- Defined-By: systemd[m -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[m -- [m -- Unit x-display-manager.target has failed.[m -- [m -- The result is dependency.[m Feb 08 09:31:13 Zebra systemd[1]: [1;39mUnit gdm.service entered failed state.[0m[m [KZebra:~# exit Script done on Sun 08 Feb 2015 09:37:33 AM EST > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150207213723.ga24...@tomgeorge.info > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150208145520.ga22...@tomgeorge.info
