On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had >> an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). >> >> With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going >> round and round. > > I had a similar problem with GDM back when I first tried GNOME 3.0. > The (very hard to track) reason was that my installation of GDM was > really old, and the group for the gdm had changed from the 2.x days. I > had to uninstall gdm, delete the user and group gdm, completely delete > /var/lib/gdm, and install gdm again for it to work. > > What does > > $ grep gdm /etc/passwd > $ grep gdm /etc/group > > say? > > Regards.
I have "fixed" the problem by downgrading polkit and udisks. To answer your questions oldlap ~ # grep gdm /etc/passwd gdm:x:103:104:added by portage for gdm:/var/lib/gdm:/sbin/nologin oldlap ~ # grep gdm /etc/group video:x:27:root,gottlieb,gdm gdm:x:104:gdm oldlap ~ # thanks, allan
